[Sugar-devel] touchpad mode selection

[Walter Bender]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 8:47 AM,  <forster at ozonline.com.au> wrote:
> 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.

I think this is a good idea. Anyone have suggestions as to what key we
should assign?

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

While you cursor is over the button, you can just click to revert. But
maybe  a more verbose string indicating what the button does would be
helpful?

>
> 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 current implementation reverts to capacitive mode by default.

>> >> 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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