Now... this is probably a pretty marginal group of users, but I'm soon getting myself one of them Asus T91 netbooks and started thinking. Windows 7 natively supports multi-touch, and there are several desktop touchscreen PCs already in the market as well. I thought it could be fun if Xara could make use of it.

Examples:
  • Touch the page with two fingers to zoom and scroll the view (maybe even rotate it? Though Xara doesn't currently support page rotation)
  • Touch an object at two points to scale and rotate it. Touch it once to reveal the handles, then touch two corner handles for non-uniform stretch.
  • Touch two objects to drag them simultaneously
  • Touch and drag to make a rectangular selection, then, while holding down the rectangle, use another finger to select/unselect individual objects to refine the selection (ie no need to press shift)


Well... these may or may not work, since multi-touching doesn't recognize left click from right click and you do need to get your fingers on the keyboard every once in a while, but... it's fun to think about.