Re: [sugar] [PATCH] #447: grab/scroll key

2008-07-14 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 6:06 AM, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How is the cursor pixmap currently set? Is there an existing function in the sugar codebase to set the cursor pixmap? No, we just use the gdk functions. Marco ___ Sugar mailing

Re: [sugar] [PATCH] #447: grab/scroll key

2008-07-14 Thread Brian Jordan
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 12:06 AM, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 11:19:46AM -0400, Eben Eliason wrote: On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Brian Jordan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brilliant work, Erik! I had a chance to play with your first working hand scroll, and

Re: [sugar] [PATCH] #447: grab/scroll key

2008-07-14 Thread pgf
marco pesenti gritti wrote: On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 8:39 AM, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sugar devs: This is a copy of my bug report for #447. I have completed a first pass of the grab key implementation. Have you considered implementing this at the X level? If so,

Re: [sugar] [PATCH] #447: grab/scroll key

2008-07-14 Thread Erik Garrison
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 05:36:44AM -0400, Brian Jordan wrote: On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 12:06 AM, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like Brian's idea but felt similarly about the difficulty in deciding which hand button executes which function. SHIFT-HAND is a good solution, and

Re: [sugar] [PATCH] #447: grab/scroll key

2008-07-13 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 8:39 AM, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sugar devs: This is a copy of my bug report for #447. I have completed a first pass of the grab key implementation. Have you considered implementing this at the X level? If so, why did you decide to go for a Sugar

Re: [sugar] [PATCH] #447: grab/scroll key

2008-07-13 Thread Brian Jordan
Brilliant work, Erik! I had a chance to play with your first working hand scroll, and it's beyond explanation how fun it is to be able to scroll around using the touchpad without aiming for a gtkScrollBar. For all to consider: there are two grab buttons. What if one tended to grab + move

Re: [sugar] [PATCH] #447: grab/scroll key

2008-07-13 Thread Eben Eliason
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Brian Jordan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brilliant work, Erik! I had a chance to play with your first working hand scroll, and it's beyond explanation how fun it is to be able to scroll around using the touchpad without aiming for a gtkScrollBar. Great to hear!

Re: [sugar] [PATCH] #447: grab/scroll key

2008-07-13 Thread Eben Eliason
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 11:20 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: adults too. recently while demoing one of the tamtam's, it was startling to see how much click-and-dragging was necessary (e.g., for a volume slider). i suppose that would quickly become a two-handed operation. and i have no idea

Re: [sugar] [PATCH] #447: grab/scroll key

2008-07-13 Thread Gary C Martin
On 13 Jul 2008, at 16:19, Eben Eliason wrote: On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Brian Jordan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For all to consider: there are two grab buttons. What if one tended to grab + move *objects*, and the other grabs + moves *scenes/backgrounds*? From what I've heard,

[sugar] [PATCH] #447: grab/scroll key

2008-07-10 Thread Erik Garrison
Sugar devs: This is a copy of my bug report for #447. I have completed a first pass of the grab key implementation. -Erik Summary: I used the grab keys to convert the touchpad into a virtual mouse scrollwheel. Holding down the grab key and moving the mouse a small number pixels causes a fake