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Rather than removing functionality of already crammed laptop keyboards, I rather think this will be used to get rid of the touchpad and allow smaller laptop for
by m_mueller 13y ago
Rather than removing functionality of already crammed laptop keyboards, I rather think this will be used to get rid of the touchpad and allow smaller laptop form factors that still have full sized keyboards, e.g. new kinds of surface devices.
- pbhjpbhj 13y agoOn a laptop wouldn't it be far easier/cheaper to just add a keyboard facing camera in the bezel and use that to track gestures? Indeed you could probably retrofit that using a standard webcam. Most of the time I'm not using my webcam (on a Kubuntu desktop machine). It would be great to point it at the keyboard, do a "touch the corners" setup routine and then be able to do gestures. Perhaps map CapsLock to "GestureLock". Seems do-able with processing.org, perhaps http://www.silentlycrashing.net/ezgestures/ http://www.silentlycrashing.net/ezgestures/ is a starting point.
- melling 13y agoThe ESC key, and all the function keys, on my Mac laptop are half height keys. Personally, I'd rather just have an ESC gesture, for example.
- m_mueller 13y agoReplace one key with a gesture - ok. Replace all the 12 F keys and their secondary functions with 24 gestures - no thanks.
- melling 13y agoYour lack of imagination is disappointing. I didn't say that we need 24 unique gestures. I could throw out a straw man solution but let me simply say that some sort of convention is needed.