[PATCH RFC inputproto] Add WrapAround axis flag

[Daniel Stone]

Hi,

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 08:19:50AM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 01:04:06PM +0100, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > Ugh.  I suppose it's too late now, but I don't suppose it makes any more
> > sense to export them as relative rather than abs? If not:
> > Reviewed-by: Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org>
> 
> tbh, don't know. I'll ask on the wacom list but at least historically we
> couldn't - having absolute and relativ axes on a device was difficult.
> fwiw, there's at least one more device out there (XKeys Shuttle and Jog,
> even had that on my desk at some point) where an argument could be made that
> the _position_ of the wraparound wheel is important enough to not switch it
> to relative.
> having said that, the market for those devices is rather small and requires
> special software anyway.

Yeah ... I'd say for the vast majority of usecases, the important piece
of information is how far the user has moved and in which direction
rather than the position, i.e. relative.

Cheers,
Daniel