On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 03:29:15PM +0200, Éric Piel wrote: > Currently the evdev driver has two input properties to allow swapping > and inversion of the axes of pointer devices. It would be great if the > synaptics driver had the same properties (because I'd like to rotate my > touchpad). Is there any plan to implement this? The driver modification > should not be too difficult as there has been already a trial a few > months ago [1]. > > In particular, what would be the name of the input properties? For now > in evdev they are named like "Evdev Axes Swap". It would be rather > inconvenient to have "Synaptics Axes Swap". Probably the touchscreen > drivers have similar properties. Would it make sense to have them named > identically for every kind of pointer devices, irrespectively of the > driver? Have a look at 21129, it has my comment on why synaptics doesn't have this yet. http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21129
>From the bug: "The situation we have now is that each driver has it's own invert/swap axes implementation, with bugs replicated across them. Now, with properties, the situation is even worse in that each driver would then have it's own property to handle that. This feature is useful, but it should be implemented in the server" note that it'd be reasonably easy to put this into the server, so if you want to have a crack at that, I'm happy to help. Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ xorg-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
