On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:46:33 +1000 Peter Hutterer <[email protected]> wrote:
> (I assume that you're not referring to the visible shape but to the concept > of having a cursor/sprite/pointer) > > The pointer is your virtual input point on the GUI. Without it, you cannot > know where the next click from your mouse/touchpad/etc. is going to. For > direct-touch interfaces you obviously don't need the visible shape since > your finger provides the location information, but you still need the cursor > concept to tell the applications where you touched. But that's just it, why is a mouse/touchpad/etc required? What's wrong with only having keyboard input exclusively without any pointing device at all? > In the example you mentioned above - if the user drags a finger across the > screen, what else do you suggest should happen? How about: nothing at all. Sean _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
