Video demo: Openmoko Neo Freerunner Features Accelerometer-based Gestures, and Screen Orientation

[Paul-Valentin Borza]

Ok, I'll take that into consideration. Right now, I'm discussing with John
Lee on how to integrate gestures into the framework, so we could definitely
add such a behavior.

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 8:05 PM, Stroller <stroller at stellar.eclipse.co.uk>wrote:

> Great! Thanks for the info. This seems to give applications devs lots of
> potential.
>
> Any chance of you adding "shakes" to the gestures? This would be ideal for
> the "ball bearings in a tin can" style of unread email message-count.
>
> I was about to say "any chance of you adding shaking to the gestures?" but
> after I waving my hand around like an idiot it seems to me that one's
>  natural movement is not to shake with the randomness I initially assumed.
> Instead, if I wanted to hear quantity of messages in my inbox, I would
> instinctively shake quickly right-and-returning-leftwards two to four times.
>
> This adds the opportunity to shake forward and back a couple of times for
> number of SMS messages or for battery fullness (I like the Glasgow Uni's
> idea of using a splashing sound for that).
>
> (Just read your subsequent posts - I'm glad to read that gestures can
> easily be taught to the device. But you also ask for suggested gestures, so
> I think these above would be useful. I envision them to be made quite
> rapidly.)
>
> Stroller.
>
>
> On 11 Aug 2008, at 17:46, Paul-Valentin Borza wrote:
>
>  The fact that is currently undocumented is all my fault. Sorry for that -
>> I'll catch up this weekend. Till then, I have to work on the release.
>>
>> Yes, there are 2 daemons, one that processes the gestures and sends
>> signals on dbus, and a listener daemon that listens for gestures and runs
>> the actions for each gesture.
>>
>>  I'm slightly disappointed that the "shaking inbox" wouldn't be
>>> accommodated by the gestures you've made available.
>>> http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2007/11/shoogle_gives_your_cellphone_b.html
>>>
>>> ...
>>> A casual search doesn't reveal how your work is supposed to integrate on
>>> the device. Presumably it's a library or daemon which is intended to fulfil
>>> all gesturing requests from all other apps? Will it be easy to add new
>>> gestures?
>>>
>>
>>


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