dead space elimination

[Rémi Cardona]

Le 16/09/2009 16:00, Vincent Legoll a écrit :
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Jozef Riha<jose1711 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> one more thing. if you plan to go on with patching of Xorg sources,
>> please consider there might be multiple dead areas based on the
>> position of the monitors (e. g. one above and the other one below)
>
> Yes, if I get useful directions (mentoring, hint hint) I'll try to do
> something that work for more than 2 screens, with different
> resolutions, taking screen positionning / rotation into account,
> etc...
>
> I'm even thinking of different warping policies:
> - translate: warp to suitable location on other screen
> - blocking: stay on the current screen, do not enter forbidden area
> - jump into corner of the other screen
>
> but maybe only one of those will feel "natural"
>

You guys might want to look into what's been done by HCI researchers in 
this area.

One such article that comes to mind is "Mouse Ether" [1] which describes 
and tries to address the problems of dead space between monitors.

There are many more articles on the topic in various HCI related 
conferences, those might definitely be a good start as those folks have 
already cleared a lot of theoretical and technical problems.

Hope that helps.

Rémi

[1] 
http://www.patrickbaudisch.com/publications/2004-Baudisch-CHI04-MouseEther.pdf