[Sugar-devel] [PATCH] touchpad section for Sugar Control Panel

[Paul Fox]

forster at ozonline.com.au wrote:
 > Since upgrading to a paraguay build of 0.84, the behaviour of the capacitive 
 > pad seems to have changed. Rather than infrequent long periods of failure where 
 > I needed to lick my finger or plug in a mouse, it seems to have shorter periods 
 > more frequently of raised sensitivity, as if the pad is being periodically 
 > recalibrated.
 > 
 > It is no longer a problem because the behaviour always clears before it has 
 > been much of a problem.
 > 
 > Has something been fixed? Is the patch necessary?

yes, the touchpad driver was revised to try and detect "bad
behavior" more quickly, and correct it when necessary, but not
too often.  thanks for noticing.  :-)
    ( http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Touchpad_driver_changes )

that being said, since we also have this alternate mode for the
pad, we should make it available.  it's far from perfect -- it
requires a stylus, for instance, and a fair amount of pressure.
but it's predictable, which is something you can't really say for
capacitive mode.

paul
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 paul fox, pgf at laptop.org