Re: Another approach to multitouch handling

2010-06-15 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 01:27:02PM +0200, Carlos Garnacho wrote: Hi!, been thinking a while about this... On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 01:20 -0400, Rafi Rubin wrote: snip So are you saying you actually want to be able to subscribe to events from a mt finger in window that's next to

Re: Another approach to multitouch handling

2010-06-11 Thread Carlos Garnacho
Hi!, been thinking a while about this... On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 01:20 -0400, Rafi Rubin wrote: snip So are you saying you actually want to be able to subscribe to events from a mt finger in window that's next to the window with the rest of the fingers? Is that really a good idea? I

Re: Another approach to multitouch handling

2010-06-10 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 01:20:39AM -0400, Rafi Rubin wrote: On 06/07/2010 12:26 AM, Peter Hutterer wrote: On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 04:40:34PM +0200, Carlos Garnacho wrote: I've been discussing with Peter Hutterer about the convenience of the touchpoints as multiple valuators approach, and how

Re: Another approach to multitouch handling

2010-06-10 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 01:33:05AM -0400, Rafi Rubin wrote: Some more targeted comments. * Confines multitouch to a single client/Window: This is a well known problem, to my knowledge only done to have proper interaction with the paired keyboard. There are

Re: Another approach to multitouch handling

2010-06-07 Thread Carlos Garnacho
Hi!, On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 01:33 -0400, Rafi Rubin wrote: Some more targeted comments. * Confines multitouch to a single client/Window: This is a well known problem, to my knowledge only done to have proper interaction with the paired keyboard. There are

Re: Another approach to multitouch handling

2010-06-06 Thread Rafi Rubin
On 06/07/2010 12:26 AM, Peter Hutterer wrote: On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 04:40:34PM +0200, Carlos Garnacho wrote: I've been discussing with Peter Hutterer about the convenience of the touchpoints as multiple valuators approach, and how it could (IMHO) delay adoption in the short/mid term for

Re: Another approach to multitouch handling

2010-06-06 Thread Rafi Rubin
Some more targeted comments. * Confines multitouch to a single client/Window: This is a well known problem, to my knowledge only done to have proper interaction with the paired keyboard. There are pointer specific reasons that you might want to keep a stray finger

Another approach to multitouch handling

2010-06-02 Thread Carlos Garnacho
Hi!, I've been discussing with Peter Hutterer about the convenience of the touchpoints as multiple valuators approach, and how it could (IMHO) delay adoption in the short/mid term for anything related to multitouch. =The Problem= * Confines multitouch to a single client/Window: This is