[Sugar-devel] touchpad mode selection

[Christoph Derndorfer]

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Paul Fox <pgf at laptop.org> wrote:

> walter -- currently we try at boot time and set the touchpad to
> whichever mode the user last requested.  moving this
> initialization to sugar was one of the last changes you made to
> the sugar code, i think.
>
> but when you were in the office you mentioned that it might be
> preferable to always revert to capacitive (normal) mode at boot
> time, so that the user doesn't get stuck or confused by "pen
> mode" (which is certainly less "discoverable' than normal mode).
>
> the more i think about it, the more i think that's a good idea.
> what do other people (who, hopefully have tried both modes)
> think?
>

For what it's worth: I just spoke to the education team here in Paraguay and
they also said they'd prefer for the touchpad to revert back to the normal
mode as the default upon boot.

Cheers,
Christoph

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Christoph Derndorfer
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