On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 12:17:37 +1000, Russell Stuart wrote: > Only someone who doesn't use a modern multitouch touchpad could think > that. I'm sure libinput does a very good job of driving a mouse, but a > dumb touchpad does a very poor job of imitating one. This is mostly > because you have to move the finger controlling the mouse off the > touchpad to click the physical buttons, which makes clicking slow and > cumbersome. A modern touchpad's multitouch and gestures not only fix > that nit, they add scrolling and other functions a mouse can't do. But > libinput knows knowning about touchpads (modern or otherwise) and I at > least felt like time had moved backwards 5 years or so after this > change. So I respectfully disagree with the "mostly replaces it" > statement. > I'm pretty sure this "libinput knows nothing about touchpad" statement is wrong. Cheers, Julien
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