[ltp] Other uses for the fingerprint reader?

[Daniel Castro]

well not really... i only use it for password authentication.... which 
as you said is not very safe..... but I'm not that crazy about security 
either, and swiping your finger is much faster....
but for what you are saying... well..... i don't know... you'll get the 
finger thing device heating a lot (waiting for you to swipe all the 
time...), which is an issue...

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Alex Polite wrote:
> I haven't bothered to activate the fingerprint reader on my X60
> tablet, partly because I'm not that security minded and if I where I
> sure as hell wouldn't trust a fingerprint reader to keep prying eyes
> away from my data.
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> But just now I realized that it might be put to other uses in tablet
> mode. It would be cool if one could bind different fingers to
> different functions in different programs. In acroread, the index
> finger could be scroll up and down, the middle finger could be zoom in
> and out, the ring finger could be pan and the pinky... Well you get
> the idea.
>
> Anyone experimenting with anything like that? Any ideas on how to go
> about to accomplish it?
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