On Friday 05 September 2014 18:51:19 Arkadiusz Bokowy wrote: > Hi Peter, > Hi Gabriele, > > First of all thanks for reviewing the code and I'm glad, that you see > this patch as a valuable one. At the moment of writing it, I thought, > that it is a good approach to "hack" swipe functionality into the core > of the synaptic driver. However right now I'm not sure about that... > > For a long time I was concerned, that such a approach might turn out to > be a dead end. At the moment on Mac one can define actions for gestures > with up to four fingers (and all of them are useful). There are also > possibilities to combine gesture with key modifiers. So I think, that > similar combinations should be possible in the X system. Furthermore, > one should be able to configure actions if the given gesture should > generate mouse click/release event or click->movie_pointer->release. > Such an event is useful for moving windows with touchpad gesture. And > the list of combinations goes on, including the xbindkeys mentioned by > Gabriele. > > But long story short. I think, that gesture engine should be separated > from the driver itself. However, right now I'm not able to figure out > how to pass key press/release event into such a gesture engine without > an ugly hack with running daemon (like syndaemon). But maybe this idea > is completely wrong and I'm insane :) > > So, as for now, I agree with you Peter, that only the right/left swipe > action is acceptable for strict incorporation into the synaptic driver. > If everyone agree with that, I can generate appropriate patch including > your corrections.
I agree with you when you say that gesture engines should be kept separated and you may want to take a look at Touchégg (https://code.google.com/p/touchegg/). The last time I tried it I had some problems, then I stumbled upon your patch, which, despite being more limiting, had always worked reliably. Gabriele _______________________________________________ xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
