{"id":7801,"date":"2010-04-20T20:00:35","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T20:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/04\/20\/a-nice-gesture-for-open-source\/"},"modified":"2010-04-20T20:00:35","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T20:00:35","slug":"a-nice-gesture-for-open-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/20\/a-nice-gesture-for-open-source\/","title":{"rendered":"A nice gesture for  open source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There will be a Linux based iPad equivalent (I hesitate to say clone for obvious reasons), and it will have touch-technology on the &#8216;screen.&#8221;  Mostly, it will have this technology because when people started touching their computers &#8230; that way &#8230; Linux developers fashioned software so it could be done in Linux too.<\/p>\n<p>But, nonetheless, it now appears that Synaptics,  the makers of the  &#8220;gesture  library&#8221; that is widely used to make touch screens work, have made it possible to use it with Linux distros.<\/p>\n<p>Nom nom nom (that&#8217;s the sound of Linux programmers eating this up).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linux-magazine.com\/Online\/News\/Synaptics-Gesture-Suite-comes-to-popular-Linux-distros\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There will be a Linux based iPad equivalent (I hesitate to say clone for obvious reasons), and it will have touch-technology on the &#8216;screen.&#8221; Mostly, it will have this technology because when people started touching their computers &#8230; that way &#8230; Linux developers fashioned software so it could be done in Linux too. But, nonetheless, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/20\/a-nice-gesture-for-open-source\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A nice gesture for  open source<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[67],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-21P","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7801"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}