[PATCH synaptics] conf: increase top software button area to 15%

Hans de Goede hdegoede at redhat.com
Wed Aug 6 03:56:11 PDT 2014


Hi,

On 08/06/2014 04:13 AM, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> We had reports that the top software button area is hard to hit for those
> using the trackpoint and clicking the buttons with their thumb.
> 
> Analysis of event recordings (3 different people) for left, right and middle
> clicks shows that there is a significant amount of events up to about 10mm
> (with outliers up to 12mm) from the top of the touchpad. That maps to 15%.
> 
> Interestingly, the middle button is not affected by this, presumably the
> haptic feedback of the little dots sticking out from the surface make hitting
> the button easier.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net>

Looks good, thanks.

Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>

Regards,

Hans

> ---
>  conf/50-synaptics.conf | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/conf/50-synaptics.conf b/conf/50-synaptics.conf
> index a3145b8..aa50456 100644
> --- a/conf/50-synaptics.conf
> +++ b/conf/50-synaptics.conf
> @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ Section "InputClass"
>          Identifier "Default clickpad buttons"
>          MatchDriver "synaptics"
>          Option "SoftButtonAreas" "50% 0 82% 0 0 0 0 0"
> -        Option "SecondarySoftButtonAreas" "58% 0 0 8% 42% 58% 0 8%"
> +        Option "SecondarySoftButtonAreas" "58% 0 0 15% 42% 58% 0 15%"
>  EndSection
>  
>  # This option disables software buttons on Apple touchpads.
> 


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