[PATCH 02/18] Add a brief description of Clickpad to man page

[Takashi Iwai]

At Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:27:55 +1000,
Peter Hutterer wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 07:22:26PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
> > ---
> >  man/synaptics.man |    9 +++++++++
> >  1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/man/synaptics.man b/man/synaptics.man
> > index 3f1ca9d..1561e19 100644
> > --- a/man/synaptics.man
> > +++ b/man/synaptics.man
> > @@ -726,6 +726,15 @@ and finger movement distance.
> >  Trackstick mode is exited when the finger pressure drops below
> >  FingerLow or when the finger is moved further than MaxTapMove away
> >  from the initial position.
> > +.
> > +When the input device reports a device with a single left button
> > +and without multi-fingers, the driver assumes it's a Synaptics
> > +Clickpad device and handles it in ClickZone mode.  In this mode,
> > +a left/right/middle button event is generated according to the
> > +position you click.  When Clickpad is enabled, the touchpad area
> > +is shrunk as default in 20% and the bottom area is used as the
> > +click-button area.  The area can be configurable via options or
> > +properties below.
> > 
> >  .SH "DEVICE PROPERTIES"
> >  Synaptics 1.0 and higher support input device properties if the driver is
> > -- 
> > 1.7.3.1
> 
> Please squash this in with the first patch so we have the change in one go.

Agreed.

I'm also thinking to merge the patch 07/18 "Allow touching in clickpad
button area" into a single patch.  With this patch, the clickpad
behavior is changed completely, and it's no big merit to keep the old
good "disable-in-button-area" code.


thanks,

Takashi