Right mouse button tslib patch

Michael 'Mickey' Lauer mickey at openmoko.org
Sat Aug 16 18:14:58 CEST 2008


Am Samstag 16 August 2008 18:06:15 schrieb Sebastian Ohl:
> On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 17:13 +0200, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
> > That's cool. However, I think it's pretty hard to use that way. Something
> > that has been on my list of things to explore for quite a while has been
> > a specialized tslib plugin that is an X client hence can community with
> > X.
> >
> > A common way to substitute a right click is to use tap-with-hold. There
> > are patches against Gtk+ to make this work. Much more versatile would it
> > be to do this in tslib itself, so that all X clients would benefit from
> > it.
> >
> > (In a second step, we should use this technique to implement mouse
> > gestures in a toolkit-independent way)
> >
> > Could you take a look into that?
>
> as i told joachim, i will think about that. i cannot be so hard to
> implement the logic, but the hard part would be to get it stable(not in
> the way of code quality but in to get deterministic bias free results)

May be true for Debian (not really familiar with this distro), but at least 
your changes would be very nicely isolated (just a tslib plugin that can be 
shipped seperately).

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