Bug 86376

Summary: Add support for handwriting on touchpads
Product: Wayland Reporter: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer>
Component: libinputAssignee: Wayland bug list <wayland-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: medium CC: alexepico, elreydetodo, peter.hutterer
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:

Description Peter Hutterer 2014-11-17 08:22:25 UTC 
For non-latin alphabets the touchpad can be a useful area for handwriting (followed by symbol recognition). Apple has that feature in OS X [1] and there is some work ongoing in ibus to provide this too.

This would be an explicit mode switch from pointer events to sending touch events, emulating it on pointer events only (even when in absolute mode) is not sufficient - when in pointer mode the touchpad doesn't send press/release events for placing a finger on the touchpad. That's our biggest issue getting this into X.

Must not conflict with other gestures, see Bugs 85880 and 85881.


[1] http://support.apple.com/en-au/HT4288
Comment 1 Peter Hutterer 2014-11-18 06:44:32 UTC 
yikes, I knew I had already had this one filed: Bug 85879
Comment 2 Peter Hutterer 2015-04-14 23:49:48 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 85879 ***

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