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Re:Will Linux phones stay around this time? by EvilEy3 on Sunday May 02, 2021 @07:31AM (#27014275)
> plenty of us

Which is a soooo tiny minority that it won't even show up on charts.

> It's absolutely impossible to discover but I think it involves a "reverse three finger pinch."

That's a shitty UX, not UI.

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Re:Will Linux phones stay around this time? by dudeman13 on Sunday May 02, 2021 @08:14AM (#27014599)
Can't have bad UI if there is no visible UI taps head
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Re:Will Linux phones stay around this time? by II2II on Sunday May 02, 2021 @09:37AM (#27015174)
User interfaces are how you interact with a computer. That includes visual and non-visual elements. Widgets you tap on the screen, gestures you make with your fingers, hotkeys, and commands entered are all components of the UI. If you pinched your fingers together on a touch screen and the view started zooming in it would be just as bad as clicking on a magnifying glass with a '-' symbol and it zooming in, even though the former is not visible.
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Re:Will Linux phones stay around this time? by slver on Sunday May 02, 2021 @08:25AM (#27014662)
There is no three finger manual focus gesture on iPhone. Not sure where he got that from.
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