On 12-04-03 02:24 PM, Chase Douglas wrote:
Chase, I find it incomprehensible how anyone could want this behaviour. Did any
of them explain why they prefer it? Could you maybe get them to comment on this
thread?
The reason they gave was that you would need to drag your finger much
farther with every additional monitor you add, when you need to go from
one side of the X screen to the other.
Not a terrible argument, but by the same token you need to push a trackpoint
longer, and an external mouse further, yet neither change their acceleration. I
think the far more important point is that the user has to recalibrate himself
every time a monitor is added or removed, and worse yet, recalibrate along only
a specific dimension.
Again, the inconsistency with the multi-monitor behaviour of other pointing
devices within Linux is glaring, as is the inconsistency with touchpads on other
OSes. It would seem to me that going against the consensus across pointing
devices and OSes (at least, as perceived by myself) should require extraordinary
justification.
I personally agree with you, but such a change would affect everyone who
uses a trackpad with multiple monitors on X.org today. I think we can
make the change and tell people to get over it :), but it's not just my
call.
Naturally, it would be nice to change the default behaviour, but as I think was
mentioned in one of the bug reports, could a configurable option be added to
switch between the two behaviours, and leave the default as is to prevent
controversy for now?
Martin
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