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

[Peter Hutterer]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 04:00:41PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> 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).

Just for the archives, this will probably end up as an either/or behaviour.
Having software buttons and clickfinger behaviour makes the driver a lot
harder to get right.

Cheers,
   Peter