[PATCH libinput 08/20] touchpad: Only enable clickfingers on Apple touchpads

Hans de Goede hdegoede at redhat.com
Tue Apr 15 07:00:41 PDT 2014


Hi,

On 04/15/2014 03:44 PM, Daniel Stone wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 15 April 2014 13:28, Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> Apple touchpads don't have visible markings for the software button areas
>> that almost all other vendors use. OS X provides clickfinger behaviour
>> instead, where a click with two fingers on the touchpad generate a right
>> button click. Use that same behaviour in libinput.
>>
>> For all other touchpads, use the software button areas introduced in a
>> follow-up commit.
>>
> 
> Some of the early Samsung Chromebooks had an Apple-style setup: it would be
> good to expose this as a tuneable so it could be set through configuration.

Agreed, but that will have to wait till we have some sort of config framework
in place. Creating a config framework is on my / Peter's TODO (who ever gets
around to it first).

Regards,

Hans


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