synaptics state

[Maxim Levitsky]

On Sunday, 8 June 2008 09:18:15 Paul Vojta wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 08:17:05PM +0200, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> > On Saturday 07 June 2008, Hanno Böck wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > What is the state of the synaptics driver?
> > >
> > > It seems the last thing that happened was the relicensing, though a
> > > relicensed version was never published. (who did the relicensing? can you
> > > comment on it?)
> > >
> > > It doesn't compile against current xorg-server git, since the mpx-changes.
> 
> As I recall, there was a second set of licensing changes that were asked
> for, and not all of the authors could be reached for that second set.
> Or maybe not all of them agreed.
> 
> However, have a look at my latest synaptics driver, and let me know if
> you'd prefer to make that one the offical one.  It is still not as
> featureful as the other driver, but I feel that it operates better and
> I can work on bringing it closer to being fully featured.
> 
> Here is the url:
> 
> 	http://math.berkeley.edu/~vojta/xf86-input-synaptics-0.99.2.tar.bz2
> 
> The man page may be incomplete, but I can fix that fairly quickly.
> 

Small question,

I noticed that windows synaptic driver has a feature that
moving a finger on top edge sends back/forward keyboard events

Does some version of synaptic driver support this?

Best regards,
	Maxim Levitsky