Re: Pointer glide patch for Input/synaptics

2009-01-27 Thread Dylan McCall
That's completely understandable, especially for something this iffy. I'll poke the idea downstream in Ubuntu land and see what happens. With regards to touch screen vs. touchpad, they are indeed different input devices, but they are similar with regards to /scrolling/ things as either way it is wi

Re: Pointer glide patch for Input/synaptics

2009-01-26 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 08:51:00PM +, Dylan McCall wrote: > > Can you explain what reasonable defaults one should use for the friction? > > The default ones (I just applied the patch here) don't really make sense to > > me. If anything, they make the touchpad harder to use as there's a high >

Re: Pointer glide patch for Input/synaptics

2009-01-24 Thread Matt Helsley
On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 08:28 -0800, Dylan McCall wrote: > Hello! > > I'm just wondering what people think of the little "pointer glide" thing > I submitted. Here would be a better place for discussion than on > bugzilla, if anyone is interested :) > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1

Re: Pointer glide patch for Input/synaptics

2009-01-24 Thread Dylan McCall
> Can you explain what reasonable defaults one should use for the friction? > The default ones (I just applied the patch here) don't really make sense to > me. If anything, they make the touchpad harder to use as there's a high chance > that the pointer keeps moving after I have released over a but

Re: Pointer glide patch for Input/synaptics

2009-01-22 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 08:28:21AM -0800, Dylan McCall wrote: > I'm just wondering what people think of the little "pointer glide" thing > I submitted. Here would be a better place for discussion than on > bugzilla, if anyone is interested :) IMHO, for new features the list is a better place than

Pointer glide patch for Input/synaptics

2009-01-22 Thread Dylan McCall
Hello! I'm just wondering what people think of the little "pointer glide" thing I submitted. Here would be a better place for discussion than on bugzilla, if anyone is interested :) https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19525 The mouse is a successful input technique because the physical