On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 06:52:54PM -0800, Chase Douglas wrote: > This patch series adds proper clickpad support. Clickpads are trackpads that > have buttons integrated into their touch surface. In order to press the > buttons > one has to be in contact with the touchpad. This causes all kinds of problems > today. For example, pressing with one finger and dragging with another is > interpreted as a two-touch scroll (where enabled). > > This patch set attempts to work across all clickpads. The variants I am aware > of > are: > > Apple magic trackpad and unibody macbook trackpads > - Whole touch surface is one button > > Synaptics ClickPads > - Whole touch surface is a button > - Left and right button areas are painted on > - Use "Synaptics Right Button Area" property to set the button area > - Taps and clicks in right button area will emit right clicks > > Dell Synaptics ClickPads > - Only seen in older Dell netbooks, will never be produced again (hopefully) > - Bottom right of touchpad is left button > - Bottom right of touchpad is right button > - No other area physically clicks or is interpreted as a button > - Use "Synaptics Right Button Area" property so taps emit right clicks > > Semi-multitouch ClickPads > - Some Synaptics ClickPads are semi-multitouch, some aren't > - This patchset includes quirk handling for these devices as well > > These features are the most requested features for trackpads on Ubuntu. As it > is > today, all clickpads are badly broken when used with xf86-input-synaptics. > This > patchset should bring some sanity to the situation. > > Note that there is still one ugly issue remaining on some synaptics trackpads. > On my Dell netbook if you release one finger and put another down somewhere > else > at the same time it thinks the finger has moved. We probably need some better > filtering somewhere, but I'm not sure where yet. > > The patches can be pulled from: > > git://people.freedesktop.org/~cndougla/xf86-input-synaptics clickpad-synaptics
For patches not otherwise commented on: Reviewed-by: Peter Hutterer <[email protected]> Looks sane enough, despite the two-finger touch issue pointed out by Bryce. We should find a way around this, but it doesn't need to be in this series. Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
