That also went away in Win10, so the OEMs will go back to making all sorts of differing gestures do different things in an attempt to differentiate themselves. One of the good things that also went aside in Win10 with PTP was that in Win8.1 you weren't allowed to install your own driver, and customize things. Note that lots of cheapo touchpads only allowed 3 fingers max (or they're using a shitty bus, like PS/2, yes vendors still sell some laptops that use a PS/2 bus for the touchpad) so that a driver update isn't going to fix things for everyone. With the relaxed requirements, there will be some driver updates for a number of devices that will enable PTP emulation. This is because OEMs screamed about not being able to pass the logo requirements test with cheapo touchpads. MS relaxed a number of the Precision Touchpad requirements, and made it optional for Win10. I'd guess maybe too many four-finger gestures were accidentally interpreted as three-finger gestures? But that's just a guess. You can find some early articles about the trackpad gestures that mention four-finger gestures but at least on the hardware I'm using they don't seem to work. Obvously there needs to be consideration around accessibility, but that is where the OS should allow you to pick and choose gestures to suit whatever situation you are in Third is a combination of the first two, as if you're taking the cursor and pushing that on to the contentįourth pushes so hard you end up moving the app itself around Second is the content which you can push/move around a bit

the more fingers you use, the more you push into the computerįirst is the mouse cursor which glides over the top of everything

lots of room to have fun here all the while keeping the window/app gestures (lots of room to have fun here)Ĥ finger gestures - advanced version of 2 finger - content manipulation. 3 fingers to click+drag, 3 finger tap for os specific. scrolling, right click menus, zoomingģ finger gestures - advanced version of 1 finger. move cursor, click cursor, click and drag with mouseĢ finger gestures - content manipulation/context sensitive movement and control - i.e.

1 finger gestures - basic movement and tool control - i.e.

Windows 7 mac trackpad gestures