Unity should listen for gestures but allow other applications to handle gestures as well

[richwillal]

When installing a gesture handling application such as ginn, Unity should allow the application to also receive gesture details so that native gestures aren't the only ones which can be handled. I believe this is related to a bug in ginn (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ginn/+bug/985121). The workaround to make ginn subscribe to gestures is to recompile the unity package after commenting out the initialization of gesture handling in Unity. The problem, of course is that the native gestures which provide drag handles for touch screen users are no longer available making window management difficult. Allowing some pass-through of gesture handling would enable additional touch screen gestures to be handled without the loss of the native gestures in Unity.

(Should be listed as an enhancement request.)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.