On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Thomas Jaeger <thjae...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 09/29/2012 07:58 PM, Jason Gerecke wrote: >> For the moment, all touches are sent as XIDependentTouch. Direct touch >> devices such as tablet PCs and Cintiqs are not an exception. This may >> be changed in the future once frameworks are better equipped to handle >> direct input touches. > > For users that don't use gesture mode, this causes a regression: their > tablets behave like relative devices all of a sudden. > > Tom > Could you explain this in a little more detail? My tests with both indirect and direct touch devices haven't revealed any regression like this. I admittedly haven't tested the absolute case as thoroughly as the relative one (due to a lack of software to visualize my touches), but the experience didn't "feel" any different after this patch.
Use of XIDependentTouch does admittedly cause all touches to be sent to the focused window (instead of each touch going to the window directly underneath it), but I was running into trouble getting touchscreens to work correctly with XIDirectTouch. I'm not sure if it was my code or the desktop environment, but I wouldn't expect simply switching the type I report the touch as to cause my own code to break :D I suppose I should see how my desktop reacts with touch coming through evdev instead to be sure though... Jason --- When you're rife with devastation / There's a simple explanation: You're a toymaker's creation / Trapped inside a crystal ball. And whichever way he tilts it / Know that we must be resilient We won't let them break our spirits / As we sing our silly song. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;258768047;13503038;j? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html _______________________________________________ Linuxwacom-devel mailing list Linuxwacom-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxwacom-devel
