[PATCH 10/18] Add multi-touch support

Henrik Rydberg rydberg at euromail.se
Thu Oct 14 12:58:50 PDT 2010


On 10/14/2010 08:52 PM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

> On Thursday, October 14, 2010 11:19:37 am Henrik Rydberg wrote:
>> On 10/14/2010 06:54 AM, Peter Hutterer wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>>> oh, I didn't know this. that should go into a comment and the commit
>>> message then. Though a few touchpads support up to 4 fingers, isn't it
>>> (Henrik, what about the apple touchpads?)
>>> and either way, keeping it generic from the start saves us some
>>> unexpected pain later.
>>
>> The apple touchpads support 10+ fingers. There are some others as well
>> (notably 3M with 25+ fingers), and several more are in the pipe.
>>
> 
> Now we only need to accelerate evolution so humans can take advantage of
> all the features the hardware has to offer ;)

:-D

Rumor has it that Ford Prefect once uttered: "You may think 25 fingers is enough
to invite Zaphod Beeblebrox and two of his mothers to a nice game of bridge, but
given hands, elbows and paws, I find it hard to even play scrabble with my dog".
But I doubt it.., Don't think Ford Prefect ever had a dog. ;-)

Henrik


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