[PATCH RFC inputproto] Add WrapAround axis flag

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Tue Aug 16 05:04:06 PDT 2011


On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 04:03:47PM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> Some devices (e.g. Intuos 4) have axes that are ring-shaped and thus jump
> from min→max or max→min. Clients (and the server) should know about this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net>
> ---
> This is a must-have if we want to have scroll button emulation in the
> server. Currently, this functionality is in the driver and does the
> detection for us but switching to smooth scrolling makes the scroll ring
> flaky.
> 
> Besides, exporting this information to the client may be of use to them too.

Ugh.  I suppose it's too late now, but I don't suppose it makes any more
sense to export them as relative rather than abs? If not:
Reviewed-by: Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org>

Cheers,
Daniel


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