Chase, I would try and make the use case of clicking and dragging along with 2 finger clicking work. The other scenario could possibly be worked out via a ppa or script for users who wish to change or otherwise enable the split clickpad. I personally don't like the split clickpad idea and I think making things standard for all users would be best. Aka,
1 finger tap/click = left click 2 finger tap/click = right click multitouch click and drag = just works :-) It's late and I'm failing to remember.. is tap to click configurable for this? IE, I can tap the clickpad for a click, or I have to depress the clickpad to register a click. Nicholas On 02/29/2012 04:11 PM, Chase Douglas wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm sending this to both ubuntu-devel and ubuntu-desktop to try to get > a larger pool of feedback. > > I recently added "ClickPad" support in Precise. This is automatically > picked up by most Synaptics and all Apple Macbook trackpads. It will > soon be picked up by more Synaptics trackpads and the Apple Magic > Trackpad. ClickPad support entails the ability to press the trackpad > with one finger and perform a drag by moving a second finger. > > The problem we face is that currently "ClickPad" support conflicts > with "click actions". Click actions is the term for supporting right > button behavior by clicking on the trackpad with two fingers. This has > been supported for years, and has helped people perform right clicks > on clickpad devices before the clickpad support landed in Precise. > Unfortunately, we can't have clickpad support and click action support > at the same time yet (ran out of time for Precise). > > One feature that hasn't been turned on by default yet is a right > button area. On Synaptics trackpads, the lower right area of the > trackpad is marked as a right button. If you enable the right button > area and then press with one finger in the area, a right button click > will be emitted. > > We can enable the right button area by default for all clickpads. The > problem is that Apple trackpads do not have a marking for a right > button area, and OS X doesn't provide such a feature. People coming > from OS X will have to figure out that we a) don't have click action > support, and b) if you click in the lower right area you will perform > a right button click. However, people coming from OS X also expect to > be able to click and drag with two fingers... > > Our options are: > > * Disable clickpad support by default > * Enable clickpad support, but disable right button area by default > * Enable clickpad support and right button area by default > > We can have a different default for Apple trackpads and everything else. > > The next Precise kernel will enable clickpad support for all known > trackpads by default, but right button area remains disabled. Until > then, you can manually enable support by finding your trackpad device > id using 'xinput', then running the following scripts: > > http://people.canonical.com/~cndougla/enable-clickpad.sh > http://people.canonical.com/~cndougla/enable-rightbutton.sh > > If you have tried all the options and have an opinion on which option > we should take, please send your thoughts. > > Thanks! > > -- Chase > -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
