Re: [PATCH libinput 02/11] touchpad: only enable thumb detection on clickpads
Dominic Jänichen writes: > > Hello Peter, > > did you think about Thinkpads? For me, having physical buttons above > the touchpad is the reason to have the thumb on it... That is, while using > the trackpoint. > (This particular touchpad also is a clickpad, but there is (older) models > with non-clickpad touchpads...) > This also goes for patch number 7; it is the right (me being right handed) > side of the touchpad that gets the thumb, not only the lower part. (And the > left side for left handed people) > > Dominic > So, turns out I should be in for a basic course on anatomy... I thought about "palm" when you wrote "thumb". Sorry for the noise. Dominic ___ wayland-devel mailing list wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
Re: [PATCH libinput 02/11] touchpad: only enable thumb detection on clickpads
Peter Hutterer writes: > The use-case we have thumb detection for is to let a user rest a > thumb on the touchpad before clicking. On a touchpad with physical > buttons, the thumb won't be resting on the touchpad. > Hello Peter, did you think about Thinkpads? For me, having physical buttons above the touchpad is the reason to have the thumb on it... That is, while using the trackpoint. (This particular touchpad also is a clickpad, but there is (older) models with non-clickpad touchpads...) This also goes for patch number 7; it is the right (me being right handed) side of the touchpad that gets the thumb, not only the lower part. (And the left side for left handed people) Dominic ___ wayland-devel mailing list wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
Re: [RFC] libinput configuration interface
On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 11:02:42 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: > > tbh, I'm not planning to support every potential option under the sun. > There's a fine and rather blurry line between what is a preference and > what is merely configuration because we can't commit to a single > default. I'd rather have less configuration options and support those > well and do the synaptics approach of supporting everything but being > quite bad at how the various options interact. > As for the softbuttons config items, I'm somewhat leaning towards finger > movement in the button areas, but no clicks outside the button area. And > to actually trigger a button, you need to start inside the button area - > which becomes easier when you have proper finger tracking (synaptics > currently doesn't). Does that imply the following use case will be supported? Being used to TP trackpoints, I am using the index finger outside the button area (on a touchpad that doubles as one hardware button) and the thumb to "click". I'd expect to able to move the pointer with the index finger while clicking, disregarding slight thumb movements while doing so. This seems to very difficult to archieve (if at all) with the synaptics driver; the points jumps widely, especially if the index finger is removed from the touch pad immediately before clicking. I can imagine that this boils down to having areas insensitive to motion, but still working as softbuttons. Dominic ___ wayland-devel mailing list wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
