Odd issues with Cando touch screen

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Mon Jul 9 19:00:46 PDT 2012


On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 08:22:36PM +0000, Chandler Paul wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 10:22:09 +1000
> Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:
> 
> > I'll add a section about MT support the man page (once I get to it)
> > but I don't want this to be a configurable behaviour. getting MT
> > right is difficult to begin with and having these behaviours
> > configurable makes coding, debugging and triaging a lot harder.
> > 
> > we're in that transition phase of some drivers/devices having MT
> > support, others not, the client stack having partial support so
> > things just don't work perfectly smooth yet. hacks we put in now may
> > solve some pain short term, but will come back to bite us later.
> 
> So if anything like this were to be done, I'd be much better trying to
> implement it into the DE or the like instead of the actual drivers then?

yes. try to get proper support into the various clients/toolkits. e.g. GTK
already converts a long touch to a right click.

Cheers,
  Peter



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