Should touch events update the cursor position?

Marco Martin notmart at gmail.com
Thu Oct 16 14:57:24 UTC 2014


On Thursday 16 October 2014, Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> Hi touch screen users,
> 
> I'm currently wondering how our cursor should behave when there are touch
> events. Under X11 I expect that it moves the cursor, but is that really the
> expected behavior? Should it affect the cursor position at all?
> 
> In my thought it's the cursor image should only be moved by a pointer
> device (such as a mouse or a touch pad), but not by a touch screen.
> 
> What do the people with a touch screen think about it? How do you expect it
> to behave in a perfect world?

kinda used to touch events moving the cursor, so maybe is just habit..
also, iirc in qt touchevents also generate qmouseevents iirc, so i think is 
expected the mouse pointer to behave accordingly  (or pretty much nothing 
would work on touch screens)

-- 
Marco Martin


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