On 04/06/2011 03:30 PM, Bryce Harrington wrote: > 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."
Good idea. I added a blurb. Thanks, -- Chase -- Ubuntu-x mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-x
