Should touch events update the cursor position?

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Friday, October 17, 2014 07:26:55 Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> On Thursday 16 October 2014 16:32:02 Weng Xuetian wrote:
> > If we're talking about the cursor image moving or not, the cursor will
> > hide
> > on other platform if touch event comes int. The cursor position doesn't
> > matter if there's no visual feedback (hover event).
> 
> consider that the mouse could be moved at the same time as the touch events 
> appear. This makes me very unsure about hiding the cursor.
> 
> > 
> >
> > As for mouse.pos(), this should always be updated, for example there are
> > application use mouse position to implement visual drag'n'drop.
> 
> On Wayland they get dedicated touch events. Applications relying on having
> the  pointer position updated would clearly be an application bug.

Or a feature.

With forwarding touch events to mouse events, we can make a whole lot of 
applications "just work" with touchscreens. I don't see why we should not do 
that.

Hiding the cursor, to me, is something cool, but extra.

Cheers,
-- 
sebas

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