Additional multitouch gestures

[danirabbit]

Multitouch Gestures can be a quick way to perform actions in an app such as navigating between views or deleting items from a list. Gestures exist in some places in elementary OS 6 already, but this could be greatly expanded

Outcome

Students should identify areas where multitouch gestures could improve user experience and then implement them using LibHandy. This may involve some refactoring for example in apps with existing navigation models. Students should be able to demonstrate how their new gestures increase productivity and/or delight. Especially clever students will create re-usable code that may be proposed as part of our Granite app framework

Issues such as those on this project page should be resolved: https://github.com/orgs/elementary/projects/61

Skills/Requirements

• Familiarity with object-oriented programming languages
• Comfortable developing on Linux with a comprehensive developer guide, or willing to learn quickly
• Able to learn how to develop in an existing Vala codebase with help from our community of developers
• Familiarity with the widget toolkit GTK, or a willingness to learn
• An understanding of CSS
• A computer able to run Linux with a multi-touch trackpad or touch screen

Difficulty: 💪 Moderate

Students will not need to write custom drawing or input handling code, but they will need to demonstrate a good understanding of combining multiple toolkit features to create meaningful animations and UI affordances.
Students will need to be somewhat self directed in identifying areas where gestures can improve user experience. They will need to be creative yet realistic in defining the project scope. This project can be very straightforward or very difficult depending on the student's ambition 🚀

[danirabbit]

I would be happy to mentor this project :)

[cassidyjames]

I would be happy to mentor this project! I’ve been working a lot with the multi-touch design in the OS and would be able to guide a student.