At Mon, 11 Oct 2010 13:51:35 +1000,
Peter Hutterer wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 03:20:40PM -0400, Joe Shaw wrote:
> > Attached are a pair of patches which add support for absolute
> > coordinate motion events to the synaptics driver.  The first patch
> > allows Absolute to be passed into XSetDeviceMode() and the latter posts
> > absolute motion events using the raw X and Y coordinates rather than
> > computing deltas.
> 
> I do wonder how many users actually use their touchpad in absolute mode.

It'd be suited well for graffiti or hand-written letter recognition,
for example.  The demand is likely a niche, though.


Takashi
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