Should touch events update the cursor position?

Marco Martin notmart at gmail.com
Thu Oct 16 15:34:16 UTC 2014


On Thursday 16 October 2014, Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> > > 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)
> 
> is that also the case on Wayland?

don't know, tough being common between x11 and Windows, i think is probably 
expected everywhere (even on android mousearea just works on touch, as it 
should to not require way more complex logic on the app side)

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Marco Martin


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