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Synaptics has just announced that they are bringing multi-touch capability to the Linux desktop with their Synaptics Gesture Suite (SGS) for Linux. (Today's press release is available here: press release.) Synaptics makes touchpad and other touch-based user interface devices for many companies, including some of major computer and laptop manufacturers. A Wikipedia article indicates that the company's OEMs include such computer manufacturers as Asus, Acer, Dell, HP, Sony, Toshiba, Gateway, IBM, Lenovo, Samsung, and more.
SGS for Linux (SGS-L) supports such enhancements and gestures as two-finger scrolling, pinch-to-zoom, twist-to-rotate, three-finger gestures, and other scrolling and multi-finger techniques. You can find more information about the capabilities of SGS-L at http://www.synaptics.com/go/SGSL. According to the press release, Synaptics is providing SGS-L to their partners free of charge, and bundled with their enhanced driver interface, when it is ordered with Synaptics' TouchPad and ClickPad(tm) products. Synaptics lists these supported versions of Linux: "Fedora, Millos Linpus, Red Flag, SLED 11 (SuSE), Ubuntu, and Xandros." We are sure that this means that we will soon see these features on computers featuring Linux distributions.
Listen to Tom and Larry discuss this announcement in the April 20 episode (#100) of the Going Linux Podcast.
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