Bug 85530

Summary:	Add clickfinger configuration for touchpads
Product:	Wayland	Reporter:	Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer>
Component:	libinput	Assignee:	Wayland bug list <wayland-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	medium	CC:	bugzilla, elreydetodo, jadahl, jwrdegoede, peter.hutterer
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Peter Hutterer 2014-10-28 00:37:23 UTC

As of 0.6 we support software buttons on touchpads. Apple touchpads don't have software buttons but use the clickfinger behaviour instead; they don't have markings and the OS X behaviour is clickfinger as well.

Some laptops have no markings (e.g. Lenovo Carbon X1), making it hard to judge where exactly the software buttons are. Thus it makes sense to provide clickfinger behaviour on non-Apple laptops (configurable, default off).

Lenovo marketing video shows that the windows default here is to have software buttons (about 1 min in).
http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/trackpad/?bctid=3428890606001

Comment 1 Peter Hutterer 2014-12-16 00:22:50 UTC

patch series proposed here: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2014-December/018923.html

Comment 2 Peter Hutterer 2015-01-16 00:46:32 UTC

Series up to 7ce25592d9282e8435885416f46e98bb3d62807f. The two main patches are:

commit c8ec33e72a5146b60485e72264d496aba3299752
Author: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Date:   Wed Dec 3 14:45:26 2014 +1000

    Add a config interface for click methods


commit 0c50e186a05e831e1baaefa3889ef17b940504a8
Author: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Date:   Wed Jan 14 14:54:43 2015 +0100

    touchpad: hook up click method configuration

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