Re: touch events

[Simon Schampijer <simon schampijer de>]

On 02/03/2012 01:44 AM, Alberto Ruiz wrote:
> 2012/2/2 Benjamin Otte<otte gnome org>
>
> > So from reading Matthias' mails it seems to me that this is the first
> > step, so we should get this right first. We should have a good idea of
> > where we want to go, but we don't need to merge the full multitouch
> > branch to get touch events. So let's start small.
> > Note that I do not have any touch-capable devices, so I have no way to
> > test the things I'm suggesting here. All I can and will do for now is
> > API review.
> Just FYI, if anyone wants to get a device to test this, the Apple magic
> trackpad works on Linux and it is really neat for testing.
>
> Chase Douglas and the other touch engineers in the System teams use it for
> the gesture support development in Ubuntu. It is a good workaround if you
> don't want to buy a whole multitouch capable tablet(pc).

The Apple magic trackpad sounds interesting, indeed. I am using here the 
Wetab [1] with Fedora rawhide and the gtk-multitouch branch to explore 
the touchscreen possibilities until Fedora-ARM gets ready for rawhide so 
I can run on the XO-1.75/touch [2]. Was wondering the other day what 
devices others were using.

Regards,
   Simon

[1] http://wetab.mobi/en/
[2] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO-1.75