<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Paul Fox <<a href="mailto:pgf@laptop.org">pgf@laptop.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> 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? </blockquote><div> 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 </div></div> -- Christoph Derndorfer co-editor, olpcnews url: <a href="http://www.olpcnews.com">www.olpcnews.com</a> e-mail: <a href="mailto:christoph@olpcnews.com">christoph@olpcnews.com</a>