[ltp] Smackpad....

[Paul RIVIER]

m h wrote:

> People might find this interesting, though I haven't tried it.
>
> http://micampe.it/2006/06/04/here-comes-the-smackpad

Hi,

This remains to me an old idea, about how to make the touchpad usefull.
Indeed, I really prefer to use the trackpoint to move the pointer, and 
the trackpoint became so annoying because of unintentionnal touch that I 
disactivated in the bios, and I know a few others folks that did the 
same. So this device has simply no use for many people.
Well, know what I would really like in a kind of smart driver for the 
touchpad doing :
- If anything is happening on the keyboard or the trackpoint, 
desactivate touchpad (I know that already exist)
- Configurable movements / action bindings, typically : move from left 
to right go to workspace right; move up/down scrolls. And why not if 
possible, fancy gesture regognition, like 'Z' closes the windows, 
although I believe only straighforward moves can be really usefull.

Does anyone know if there is a work in progress around that ? I am quiet 
a poor C coder and know almost nothing about writing a driver for linux 
kernel or for X. But I can script the userland part, say, a Desktop 
daemon for gnome / kde / whatever to swap workspaces and additionnal 
good feature ideas.

Finally, this work could even be used on laptops with no trackpoint, 
using for exemple a modifier key, or turn it on if a mouse is plugged.

Any idea ?

Regards


paul