[Sugar-devel] touchpad mode selection

[Paul Fox]

simon wrote:
 > 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.

yes, the stylus mode requires a lot of pressure.

 > 
 > There have been discussions about which mode it should have after 
 > booting.

the system support for enabling stylus mode at boot was removed recently --
i can't remember if it's gone in 850 or 851.  this leaves the decision
up to sugar -- and i'm now firmly in the camp that the pad should revert
to capacitive mode at boot time.

 > 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.

but what would you propose?  switching to "finger" mode just before
suspending, and back to stylus mode right after resume?

paul

 > 
 > 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.
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 

=---------------------
 paul fox, pgf at laptop.org