[Sugar-devel] touchpad mode selection

[forster at ozonline.com.au]

Hi

I was playing with OS373pyg and managed to disable the touchpad. Fortunately I was able to recover by pressing the power button. 

I was expecting to get a dialogue or something. My thinking is that its too easy to switch modes and that there should be some warning. 

There is no key press combination that reverts the change.

Maybe something like the Windows change display settings, where you have to confirm your selection within a time period, would be a good addition?

Tony

> On 08/07/2010 08:22 PM, Walter Bender wrote:
> > 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?
> >>
> >>
> >> paul
> >> =---------------------
> >>   paul fox, pgf at laptop.org
> >>
> >
> > http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/attachment/ticket/2006/0001-touchpad-with-finger-mode-default.patch
> > defaults to capacitive on boot. It no longer uses the FLAG_FILE and
> > thus that file is no longer needed by your patch either. Its presence
> > will not impact the functionality, as far as I know. I've tested this
> > on 258py. I'd appreciate your doing a quick review just to make sure I
> > didn't miss anything.
> >
> > -walter
> 
> Hi Walter,
> 
> first of all thanks for your work!
> 
> I have been testing the device option on 850 XO-1.0 (it is just a matter 
> of copying the files over from the 0.90 patch that just landed in master).
> 
> I find it quite hard to use the stylus mode as one really needs to 
> scratch over the touchpad. Especially when one wants to revert the 
> setting after using the stylus mode it is hard to reveal the frame, move 
> to the icon and click it.
> 
> There have been discussions about which mode it should have after 
> booting. Another case where it might hard to discover which mode one is 
> using at that time is after suspend. You have to scratch as well in 
> order to wake up the machine.
> 
> Regards,
>     Simon
> 
> PS: style nitpick: I would capitalize the strings 'style' and 'finger' 
> and align them left in the palette.
> 
> PSS: if others want to test on the XO-1.0 I can make some rpms quickly.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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