Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:05:51 +0200 | From | Henrik Rydberg <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] input: mousedev: Emulate right and middle buttons for single-button touchpads |
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>> Regarding the tapping patch; it is addressing the correctness of >> already implemented functionality. I can see nothing wrong with that. >> > > My position that since the isssue can be "fixed" by simply installing > the proper X driver I'd rather not include it. Mousedev purpose is to > provide good enough emulation in absence of a native driver and that's > it. Also, the default value would not work well on high-resiolution > devices (like Synaptics) and would require user fiddling with kernel > parameters - not worth it in my opinion.
The parameter could be made dimensionless and the distance test scaled with the size of the device; the argument invalidates the current patch, but not the idea itself. Maybe the patch will appear in acceptable form at some point, but for now, I rest my case.
Henrik
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