On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 02:14:47PM -0400, Chase Douglas wrote: > On 04/06/2011 11:09 AM, TImo Aaltonen wrote: > > On 06.04.2011 17:46, franck wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I've seen on launchpad that starting from natty, evtouch will be removed > >> and > >> we should use evdev instead for touchscreen. > >> I've checked all around, experimented a bit but never found anything > >> related > >> to extended touch feature using evdev like simulated right-click. > >> Where evtouch is features rich for touch experience customization, evdev > >> seems > >> to offer only the basic left-click feature. > >> > >> Am I missing something? > >> I currently use a tablet this is my main problem when I tried natty. > > > > Evtouch has been unmaintained for a number of years now, that's the > > reason it got removed. There is no upstream to report bugs to, and evdev > > has largely replaced it's functionality anyway. > > > > "Rich touch experience customization" sounds like gestures to me. > > Probably not best handled by the driver but higher up in the stack. > > I'll second this assessment. Any time you have timing involved to > perform an action, like a hold to perform a right click instead of a > left click, things get very dicey in the X input module area. X > synaptics does a lot of stuff like this, and even there we see issues > now that we have features like kinetic scrolling. Such event handling > really needs to be performed on the client side of X. > > I hope that in 11.10 we will be able to add some of these types of > gestures to the toolkits. That will help resolve these issues in a > manner that does not pose corner cases or erratic behavior.
Timo and Chase, can you add a note to the release notes about this? That could help head off future user confusion about -evtouch's disappearance (and subsequent bug reports). Maybe something about "Any feature regression from -evtouch to -evdev should be filed as a bug report." Bryce -- Ubuntu-x mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-x
