My external wacom tablets work the same way, too, if it helps. :)

On Mar 21, 2017 6:28 PM, "C R" <cajhne@...400...> wrote:

I pan with space plus single touch drag, but I could pan with two fingers up/down and left/right. This works too. Object away, I'm all ears! :D
-C

On Mar 21, 2017 6:15 PM, "Vladimir Savic" <vladimir.firefly.savic@...400...> wrote:

Hi C,

Can you tell me how do you pan the canvas using multitouch gestures on Lenovo X220T? I have some objections to your proposal, but first I would like to know more about other multitouch devices. It might be that I am missing something obvious. 

Vlada

On Tue, Mar 21, 2017, 16:35 C R <cajhne@...400...> wrote:

Just tried, and works well!

Someone mentioned changing to a more tablet-friendly hotkey combo,
however it might be noted that most of the tablets currently on the
market support multitouch, and therefore support two-finger dragging
as a scrollwheel action by default. I have confirmed this on my Lenovo
X220T, and I think it works reasonably well as-is... much better than
using the third mouse button, which may or may not be present at all,
or cluttering the ctrl+alt key combinations with what's essentially a
nice-to-have feature that's not mission critical in most
circumstances.



That said, when Inkscape gets more brushes, and Ubuntu supports
mutli-touch rotation actions, this should be a great drawing feature
that will definitely allow users to "Draw Freely". ;)

One minor problem is that when using the mouse wheel for rotation, it
skips over 45 degrees. I recommend the default increment to 15 degree
angles rather than 2 degree increments for the following reasons:
1. It corresponds to the default snap-to angles of holding the alt key
while drawing lines etc, so the problem mentioned earlier about the
tools "not rotating" with the canvas is masked (will still work as
expected/wanted by the user at 15 degree angles)
2. Covers all the most useful angles for constructing things.
3. Keeps the user from having to flick the mouse wheel more than a few
times to get the desired angle.
5. Can be overridden easily in a variety of ways for the edge cases
that need a slight rotation.

Great work Tav!

Would you like me to do a video for the feature that you can post?
I'd be glad to help. :)

-C