Re: [Touchd-devel] Touchpad

[Scott S. <sco...@gm...>]

Felipe Sere wrote:
>>  Nothing is Ubuntu specific.  Its just that I'm using it and have no reports
>> of another other distro.  Touchd sends events into the kernel which get
>> pushed to X and should thus work fine with XFCE.  However, there is no way
>> of sending custom events which are not defined in the kernel.
>>     
>
> So the some of the really cool stuff can not be done yet? I would LOVE
> to see the one for resizing windows: move the fingers diagonally
> together to make it smaller, move them apart to make the window
> bigger.
>
>   
That would be way cool.  The best way of doing that would probably be 
through dbus to a compiz plugin.  Another person was talking about 
writing one.
>>> How configurable are the gestures?
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>  Not very at the moment.  However, I've designed it such that additional
>> detection engines can run in parallel.  At the moment though I've written
>> only one which does the advanced mouse stuff.
>>     
>
> Are these engines responsible for triggering the right "reaction"?
> What can it already do? From the vids I saw the "next Workspace" and
> the two-finger-scrolling.
>   
Well, the engines are responsible for interpretting the finger data and 
outputing input events.  Right now it supports the mouses REL_X and 
REL_Y, left, middle and right clicks.  What you saw for workspaces was 
just scrolling vertically on the desktop.  So far, I've only got an 
engine to mimic a fancier mouse.
> When can we expect a new release? I am waiting for my MacBook Pro
> which will come May 4th...*sigh*
>   
I'll release again when I feel like enough has improved.  Already I've 
made significant improvements to click detection and may also add a 
consistent debug output too.  I also have to fix up support for multiple 
engines.  All of the code is on Sourceforge at sf.net/projects/touchd.  
I'm also CCing this to the new mailing list.

Thanks,
Scott