On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 08:35 -0400, John.Florian(a)dart.biz wrote:
> From: Adam Williamson <awilliam(a)redhat.com>
>
> Oh, I should also note that, IIRC, the intent is that the driver
should
> detect if there are no physical buttons and enable tap-to-click in
this
> case. So touchpads which have no buttons and are only supposed to
work
> with tap-to-click should be OK.
Where does my notebook's touchpad fall in this continuum? At the
bottom corners of the touch-sensitive area are two "buttons" which
click with tactile feedback, but yet are still part of the
touch-sensitive surface. In other words, the bottom corners can
actually be deformed/depressed. FWIW, I enabled tap-to-click -- did I
just answer my own question? -- simply because my wife and I both
found the mouse to be moving off target too often when tried using
these "buttons".
As far as evdev is concerned those are almost certainly just perfectly
normal buttons, i.e., they send a 'button press' event. The fact that
they also function as part of the touch-sensitive surface is probably
irrelevant. So evdev would see your touchpad as one with buttons, and
wouldn't enable tap-to-click.
(I hereby include my permanent disclaimer that I'm just the idiot
monkey, and any time someone who's not an idiot monkey comes along and
contradicts me, you can confidently assume I'm wrong...so if ajax or
whot or someone shows up and says I'm wrong, then I damn well am.)
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