xf86-input-synaptics

[Daniel Stone]

On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 10:23:48AM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 01:06:41AM +0100, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 09:16:38AM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 09:35:52AM +0200, Cedric Sodhi wrote:
> > > > 2.) Would you consider including an option which turns the touchpad off
> > > > on keyboard (or other) input into the driver - so that ones doesnt
> > > > requie a helper program for that?
> > > 
> > > no, the driver doesn't know when keyboard input is made. and given that any
> > > such option will soon want about 15 configuration options, it's better to
> > > keep it in a client program.
> > 
> > Eh, it's actually easily doable; just have a per-device property for the
> > time in millis to ignore all input for after a keyboard event, and do it
> > all in DIX if that property is ever set on a device.
> > 
> > That way you can still have the clients in control, but you don't have
> > to rely on an external daemon constantly enabling and disabling your
> > touchpad.
> 
> do you want to enable/disable based on modifiers too?

No.  Why would you?

> only modifiers, but combos as well (ctrl+c, ctrl+v)?

As above.

> do you want to only disable tapping/scrolling, but not movement?

No.

> seriously, the options will just pile up, requiring configuration, etc. and
> the last thing we need is more config options and properties.

I agree, but we don't have to add them.

Cheers,
Daniel