Guys, thanks for your answers, I going to try them 2009/5/9 Albert Cahalan <[email protected]>
> Martin Langhoff writes: > > 2009/5/9 david <david at leeming-consulting.com>: > > >> They have better luck (maybe my fingers are sweaty more than most) > >> and I have noticed students often wrapping cloth around their > >> finger to use the touch pad. It remains a real problem, but people > >> do get by. > > > > The devel@ list archive has similar reports from the Nepal team. > > IIRC, many kids there had a small piece of cloth to sweep the pad > > of moisture and dust. Those reports were an important factor in the > > switch to a new touchpad, so as Daniel suggests, do request a sample > > one at least. > > The old laptops can perform better than the new ones if you do this: > > 1. make the resistive/pressure mode be relative instead of absolute > 2. make the resistive/pressure mode be the only mode > > Maybe this needs to be a config option in Sugar. > > The new touchpads might be less awful in bad conditions, but nothing > is ever going to make a capacitative touch pad work really well in > bad conditions. The technology is simply not suited to mud, snot, > cheese sauce, sweat, and so on. It's designed for adults in cool dry > office environments. > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- Henry Vélez Molina Administrador de red OLPC Fundación MArina Orth Tel :341 23 59 Móvil: 312 769 0169 www.fundacionmarinaorth.org
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