On Sun, 1 Mar 2009, Eben Eliason wrote: > This whole argument, I feel, is fruitless. That's just my opinion, of course. > > The touchpad isn't readily accessible in handheld mode, and was never > made to be. I'll continue to suggest that the cursor simply be > automatically hidden in handheld mode, and that a simple means for > taking full advantage of the handheld buttons which are present be > made available to activities in a standardized way.
actually, it's pretty easy to lift the screen a bit and hit the touchpad if you have the screen oriented in portrit rather than landscape (in many ways it's easier than hitting the game keys) david Lang > A suggestion for how this standardized system might work is laid out > rather clearly at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Browse#Handheld_Mode. I'd > very much like to see an API for the press and press-and-hold states > of these buttons so that activities could take advantage of it easily. > - Eben > > > 2009/3/1 NoiseEHC <noise...@freemail.hu>: >> Aaron Konstam wrote: >> >> On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 17:06 +0100, NoiseEHC wrote: >> >> >> Hello! >> >> Just today I have noticed some things about the rotate button (which is >> below the directional buttons on the display part): >> 1. When the screen is rotated the mouse does not so if I turn the XO to >> be able to read letters, I cannot navigate with the mouse. >> >> >> You can navigate but in a sense sideways. Movng the arrow up makes it go >> up. But relative to the text it is wrong. >> >> >> Yeah, just if I turn the laptop to read the text then it is a little bit >> impossible to hit anything with the cursor... >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Devel mailing list >> Devel@lists.laptop.org >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel