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On 2025-12-19 10:27, Paul wrote:
> On Thu, 12/18/2025 4:49 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>> On 2025-12-17 02:15, rbowman wrote:
>>> On Tue, 16 Dec 2025 22:07:53 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>>>
>>>> Mine has a touch screen. I don't actually use it, but I was curious. It
>>>> works as a mouse.
>>>
>>> Including the greasy little trails? Every now and then I give the phone
>>> and tablets an alcohol wipe down when they get too disgusting.
>>
>> I use an specific screen cleaning product from my local supermarket :-)
>>
>> No, I mean I was curious to find out if a touch screen could be useful.
>>
> 
> Touch screens support gestures.
> 
> I can give an example at the mall. The mall has a very large touchscreen
> for directory lookup. I would touch the screen with a knuckle (as it's
> not a particularly high-precision touch screen). There is an OSK on the
> screen, you can use a knuckle to tap out the letters of the store name.
> I had selected a store and was encouraging the map to move towards
> the store in question.
> 
> Well, the screen got rotated. I couldn't figure out what to do.
> 
> Then I remembered some conversations from here, about Windows 8 gestures.
> I put two fingers on the screen, moved the fingers together ("pinch")
> and then rotated the fingers. The entire map rotated in response.

Just tried that on my laptop (openSUSE Leap 15.6 + XFCE). No response. 
Tried also on Android: nope.

> 
> That's one gesture that came in handy, at the mall screen. I'm sure any
> of the teenagers at the mall knew that, but it took me at least a
> minute to dig that up.
> 
> Another popular gesture is the "mark of Zorro", which is the letter Z.
> If you make a motion like the letter Z, that is "dismiss" and will
> close an application window. Without having to touch a knuckle to the
> "X" in the upper right corner.

Nope. :-)

> 
> At work, we had CAD software, with gestures. You made gestures with the mouse.
> A touch screen is not necessary. Well, my fellow engineers, upon learning
> of the "dismiss" gesture, you could look across the room, and it
> looked like a "Zorro contest" :-) A bunch of idiots making Z letters
> using their mouse :-)
> 
> The reason I have to pass that one on to you, is the anecdotal findings
> on gestures, is users can only memorize a small set of them. The "suite"
> might have twenty gestures. The users might remember two of them. They
> can Zorro like crazy... because they don't remember the others. And
> that is a simplified account of gestures...
> 
> The Zorro crap eventually lost its charm, and the mouse was used
> with less flourish because frankly, the staff were exhausted from too
> many days of overtime. Our star engineer, used to complain that he
> hadn't seen his girlfriend in months. To which we would reply "what girlfriend?".
> As a measure of the hopelessness of the situation.
> 
>     Paul

{chuckle}

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.
ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;

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Re: Sopping carts, baskets, bags... Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> - 2025-12-14 22:34 +1100
  Re: Sopping carts, baskets, bags... rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-14 20:27 +0000
    Re: Sopping carts, baskets, bags... c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-12-15 02:50 -0500
      Re: Sopping carts, baskets, bags... rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-15 20:44 +0000
        Re: Sopping carts, baskets, bags... "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-12-16 22:07 +0100
          Re: Sopping carts, baskets, bags... rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-17 01:15 +0000
            Re: Sopping carts, baskets, bags... "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-12-18 22:49 +0100
              Re: Sopping carts, baskets, bags... Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-12-19 04:27 -0500
                Re: Sopping carts, baskets, bags... "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-12-19 15:41 +0100

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