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Re: Porting iScroll2's tricks ?



On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 01:23 +0200, Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I recently came across iScroll2 [1].  Quoting its homepage, it reads:
> 
>   iScroll2 is a modified trackpad driver that adds two-finger scrolling 
>   capabilities to supported pre-2005 PowerBooks and iBooks on OS X 10.3.
>   Supported models include aluminum PowerBooks introduced from 2003 to
>   2004 as well as all G4 iBooks.
> 
>   Please note that this is not just the driver for the 2005 models
>   hacked to run older models - the new models use a completely different
>   trackpad and driver. iScroll2 is based on Apple's
>   AppleADBMouse-209.0.10 driver for the trackpads found on older models,
>   which is available as part of the publicly released Darwin source code
>   (and covered by the APSL). The code added for supporting two-finger
>   scrolling was written from scratch.
> 
> Did anyone ever thought of porting the tricks it uses to Linux ADB mouse 
> driver?

I had a quick look, it shouldn't be too complicated. The thing is, i'd
like first to move ADB to the new device model so that we get
per-device /sysfs entries, where we can expose the various "settings" of
the trackpad driver.

Ben.




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