On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 04:32:10PM +0000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > What Bryce was saying is when you go from one touch on the touchpad to > > two, but before the button is pressed, the cursor freezes. As soon as > > the button is pressed, the cursor unfreezes so you can click and drag > > with two fingers. On irc, Bryce told me that he tends to leave one > > finger on the buttonpad, move the pointer with another, and press the > > button when he's got the cursor in the right location. That's not > > possible anymore because we inhibit pointer motion when more than one > > touch is on the touchpad. > > Right - separate but all related - we hit this too during our clickpad > work. When the second finger lands, it could be for a scroll, for a > click, or for some other gesture. So perhaps one approach could be to > not change state until we've definitively established what's going on > - so if you've got pointer motion on going and a second finger lands, > continue tracking the same finger for pointer motion until you've > worked out whether it's a scroll, or a click, or a pure touch gesture. > We did this to some extent with the scroll stuff, to make sure we > were avoiding unwanted pointer motion when doing two-finger scrolling.
Yes, that would provide a smoother experience it sounds like. Fwiw, here's a ppa with an ubuntu package of the patch I tested. https://launchpad.net/~bryce/+archive/clickpad-synaptics-ubuntu Bryce _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
