http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/ Engadget Comments for Synaptics extends multitouch Gesture Suite to Linux, Chrome OS included http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/Apr 20th 2010 6:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/Apr 20th 2010 6:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/synaptics-driver-enables-multitouch-gestures-on-older-trackpads/]]>Apr 20th 2010 6:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/Simple.... Jeff Hann and Tom Cruise didn't patent it...]]>Apr 20th 2010 6:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/
I retract my stupidity comment :(]]>Apr 20th 2010 7:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/Apr 20th 2010 7:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/Apr 20th 2010 3:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/Apr 20th 2010 6:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/Apr 20th 2010 12:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/Apr 20th 2010 6:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/
(SUNGLASSES)

... just got swiped.]]>Apr 20th 2010 6:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/Yep.. But we let iFanboys think Apple invented it anyway. ]]>Apr 20th 2010 7:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/]]>Apr 20th 2010 6:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/
You can see Jeff Han showing pinch to zoom in at the :45 second mark of this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89sz8ExZndc

This video was made in 2005 or early 2006 about a year before the iPhone came out .. probably more than a year even.
]]>Apr 20th 2010 6:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/Apr 20th 2010 3:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/
Re: "How does Apple have a patent on pinch to zoom..."

IANAL, but Apple acquired Fingerworks in early 2005 and so absorbed their multitouch IP. Fingerworks had been manufacturing their iGesture Pad since ~1998/1999. Apple now owns their technology.

I don't know how Apple/Fingerwork's patent differs from Jeff Han/Perceptive Pixel's implementation, which debuted in 2006. Might be a resistive vs. capacitive kind of deal (don't quote me on that; I did not bother to check their tech -_-¡). I'm guessing that prior implementations of multitouch - dating as far back as 1982 at the University of Toronto - mainly focused on camera-based tech (like Microsoft's Surface).]]>Apr 20th 2010 7:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/Apr 20th 2010 6:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/I just got a update for my Synaptics driver today on Ubuntu 10.04 beta but I'm afraid nothing new. I would assume that we will see everything described not immediate. More likely we will see rolling distros getting it quick. Like Arch then Gentoo based distros.]]>Apr 20th 2010 8:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/
In the end we'll forget all the relevant ones and just remember the curse words...]]>Apr 20th 2010 6:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/We'll learn the curse words first.]]>Apr 20th 2010 7:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/Apr 20th 2010 7:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/Apr 20th 2010 7:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/
It'll come when it comes.
The two finger scroll function has been available for some time. And is already in the Fedora repositories at least. I have it working great on my old Thinkpad. But to be honest.. I don't really have much use for most of the "OMG MULTITOUCH!!!" features. My main motive for going from the defaults was to get rid of that damned tap click.

Given that Synaptics touch-pads are pretty common, no reason to think that it will take very long to arrive in the repos. If not this release for most distros, the next one.]]>Apr 20th 2010 7:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/From the press release it sounds like this fancy proprietary version comes as a binary blob (and only to OEMs?). It probably requires specific versions of X and related packages.]]>Apr 20th 2010 8:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/
Are you telling me that I bought my Synaptics touchpad, but I won't have access to the new driver except I update my system to the supported linux partners?

I don't think so. I guess that the Synaptics team will create the bundles for those distribuitions, but all others will manage to get them from somewhere and make some kind of wrapper around the external binaries.

I happen to use Gentoo and I see this all the time, they get the upstream source code, wrap it around an ebuild and releases it into the portage tree. ]]>Apr 20th 2010 10:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/Apr 20th 2010 7:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/
Wow. An Amish guy on here...
Once I went two finger swipe to scroll windows I never went back.]]>Apr 20th 2010 9:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/touchpad sucks. Good Mouse is good
multitouch touchpad is multitouch (read awesome)]]>Apr 20th 2010 4:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/Apr 20th 2010 7:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/
That's what specs don't tell, mate.]]>Apr 20th 2010 7:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/Did you bother to check and see if there were any updates? My Dell Studio 1555 has a multitouch touchpad, and it works better than my original Apple MacBook Pro.]]>Apr 20th 2010 8:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/
Crap is crap - sigh!]]>Apr 20th 2010 9:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/
I'll probably revert to the original driver, which only allowed edge scrolling, which is not really optimal.]]>Apr 20th 2010 1:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/Apr 20th 2010 3:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/http://www.jitouch.com/index.php?page=trackpad]]>Apr 20th 2010 7:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/
Not exactly sure how they did it since that particular laptop did not come with multitouch support, but it worked really well. Also my EeePC that did come with multitouch support already has support out-of-the-box for it.

So I see this as a bit of a non-feature.]]>Apr 20th 2010 8:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/
Same thing here, I dont remember having it for the last 3 releases though. I had enabled multitouch manually in Ubuntu 9.04 and in 9.10 it came already enables with options in my mouse menu for it.]]>Apr 20th 2010 1:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/
guess the difference is that they are offering official packages for those distrubutions, so us *buntu users will only have to install a .deb and get over with it.]]>Apr 20th 2010 1:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/Apr 20th 2010 10:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/Apr 20th 2010 11:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/Chiral scroll has been in linux for years now. Its called circular scrolling in the current opensource synaptics driver.]]>Apr 20th 2010 4:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/synaptics-extends-multitouch-gesture-suite-to-linux-chrome-os-i/Apr 20th 2010 12:41PM