Re: synaptiks – KDE touchpad management

[Roman Shtylman]

I would say that first it should meet basic feature parity with the
other utility so it can be included in 4.5. Beyond that, any feature
enhancements can be built once we have _something_ as the official
touchpad config utility.

I don't think a large feature list should be a blocker on deciding
which codebase to start from and bringing that codebase in.

~Roman

2010/3/4 todd rme <toddrme2178 at gmail.com>:
> 2010/3/3 Sebastian Wiesner <basti.wiesner at gmx.net>:
>> Adding new touchpad configuration settings to synaptiks isn't really difficult
>> (see r1096669 for an example).   I just need a list of features, that are
>> missing …
>
> I hope this is an alright place to do it, but here are a list of
> things I would like to see (if possible):
>
> -Palm detection on/off
> -Two-finger scrolling on/of (both horizontal and vertical independently)
> -Corner coasting on/off
> -Setting various sensitivity parameters (touchpad sensitivity,
> acceleration, two finger detection, circular scrolling speed, palm
> detection, coasting speed, tap timing, etc).  These should be sliders.
> -Change the coasting threshold to a slider
> -Locked drags on/off
> -"Guest Mouse" (stick) on/off
> -Rectangular vs circular pad.
>
> Some more in-depth idea:
> Graphical display showing the configuration results.  You would have a
> rectangle, probably gray, representing the touchpad (an oval for
> circular touchpads).  A red dot or crosshair would show the current
> position of your finger on the touchpad.  If you trigger an edge
> detection event, a red arrow would appear just outside that edge
> showing the edge motion direction.  If you trigger circular scrolling,
> a red circle with an arrow showing the scrolling direction would
> appear.  There would be boxes in the four corners that would change
> color if you do a corner tap, and as now, a display showing how many
> fingers are currently be pressed and which mouse buttons have been
> triggered.
>
> Auto-detect edge location.  So for instance you can push a button that
> says "detect left edge", it will tell you to tap the left edge of the
> touchpad, and then it will store that value as the new left edge
> location.  You would be able to do this for all edges.
>
> -Todd
>