[PATCH xf86-input-synaptics 0/8] Various clickpad improvements

[Peter Hutterer]

On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 10:31:36AM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi Peter, Benjamin et al,
> 
> The following patchset is the result of me playing with the clickpad on the
> T440s and trying to make using it a more pleasant experience
> 
> Patch 1: "Add another third state to TouchpadOff for disabling all but button clicks"
> Is from bugzilla, I've added this as one of my patches conflicts with it, and
> it seems ready to go upstream.
> 
> Patch 2: "Add secondary (top) software buttons area"
> Is also from bugzilla, some of my patches depend on it, and it too seems ready
> to go upstream.
> 
> Patch 3-4 are some cleanup patches
> 
> Patch 5 is a resend of my earlier "Don't report motion inside soft-button areas"
> patch, addressing Peter's review comments. I had to make it less effective
> then before, now it only ignores motion started inside soft-button areas
> before a click. After a click we switch to cummulative mode, so the coordinates
> are no longer really absolute and still ignoring motion which seems to be
> inside the soft-button area then breaks click + drag behavior.
> 
> Still this is a useful patch to have as it avoids accidental cursor movement
> before the click.
> 
> Patch 6: "Ignore motion the first X ms after a clickpad click"
> Is a new patch addressing accidental movement during and after the click,
> this fixes my #1 anoyance with clickpads, where 2 out of 3 clicks turn into
> a click + drag unless I hold my finger really really still.
> 
> Patch 7: "On button down update cumulative to current x and y, instead of previous"
> Is hard to summarize, see the patch itself.
> 
> Patch 8: "Wait for *new* coordinates on a clickpad click before reporting the click"
> Is equally hard to summarize, and may be somewhat controversial, which is why
> I made this the last patch in the set :)

I've pushed the patches to master now, after removing the property support
from patch 6 and rebasing it on top of current master (few conflicts,
nothing exciting).

   ac78616..bbe4c56  master -> master

Let's see what the feedback is and then we can work from there

Cheers,
   Peter