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fiod

Member

Registered: 2007-04-02

Posts: 205

Development Request: a new way to use the touchpad

Hey,

I find the current use of the touchpad exhausting and frustrating.

Every movement of the pointer takes forever - it takes several scrolls to get from one edge of the screen to another -
and if I speed up the mouse - it gets really not comfortable.

So I'd like my synaptics touch pad to act like this:
When I first tap the touch pad, the pointer jumps on the screen to a point proportional to where
I tapped the touch pad. For example, if I tap the top right corner of the touch pad, I wish the pointer to
"jump" to the same location on the screen, irrelevant to where it was before the tap.

After the first tap, the touch pad should act normally - meaning exactly as it acts now ("the regular way").
If I stop touching the touch pad for a certain period of time (say, 2-3 seconds), it again should wait
for the first tap - to make the "magic jump".

I think this should minimize our use of the touch pad at about 80%.

I don't know any tools to make this happen (under X/KDE).

What do you think?

Fiod

Last edited by fiod (2008-02-14 14:44:11)

mfolnovic

Member

From: Zagreb, Croatia

Registered: 2008-01-03

Posts: 104

Re: Development Request: a new way to use the touchpad

+1
it would be very useful, especially for me

tigrmesh

IRC Op

From: Florida, US

Registered: 2007-12-11

Posts: 794

Re: Development Request: a new way to use the touchpad

This wiki page might be helpful:  http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Synaptics.

iphitus

Forum Fellow

From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: Development Request: a new way to use the touchpad

Use keyboard

fiod

Member

Registered: 2007-04-02

Posts: 205

Re: Development Request: a new way to use the touchpad

I was thinking of trying to develop it myself.

I took a look at synclinet, that might help the development.

However, I could not find how (or using which program) I can send directions to the mouse pointer,
telling it where to go on the screen.

Can synclient do that?
Some other software?

Tnx
Fiod

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Development Request: a new way to use the touchpad

I reckon the best guy to talk to would be the synaptics dev. It's possible he doesn't read this forum.

fiod

Member

Registered: 2007-04-02

Posts: 205

Re: Development Request: a new way to use the touchpad

I say - don't ask what the synaptics developer can do for you, ask what you can do for him (and the community)

jacko

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Registered: 2007-11-23

Posts: 840

Re: Development Request: a new way to use the touchpad

I say - don't ask what the synaptics developer can do for you, ask what you can do for him (and the community)

good call,