Google Summer of Code ideas needed

[Yuri]

On 03/13/2013 18:07, mengyu.xia at cn.alps.com wrote:
>
> I got an idea.
>
> Add custom gesture recognition to touchpad and touchscreen driver module
> Difficulty: Medium
> Skills Required: C
> Description:
> This project can allow user to create custom gesture for special 
> function, like turn off notebook,
> start a speciel application, and so on. we need a GUI for user to 
> config and input the gesture, and
> add the recognition code to synaptics module or a new created module.
>

This can also be potentially useful on the desktop with at least this 
one type of mouse: http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/en-us/p/touch-mouse
It has the matrix of sensors and there is an open source adapter for it 
allowing to extract https://github.com/mcuelenaere/mstouchmouse/ finger 
touch picture.

If the gesture recognition, as an algorithm and gui, is properly 
implemented (as a user-land library), it is very easy to set up such 
mouse as a gesture based keyboard.
Microsoft driver for it does just that on Windows.

Yuri
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/attachments/20130313/d7b4496a/attachment.html>