Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 21:06:46 +0100
From: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
To: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
Cc: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Linux-Input <linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Subject: Re: [RFC/RFT] [patch] Elo serial touchscreen driver
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On Wed, 2005-02-09 19:54:04 +0000, Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
wrote in message <420A6A5C.8030106@grupopie.com>:
> >We could have a library that would do that and link applications against
> >it. It could also handle things like tap-n-drag, etc, something we
> >certainly don't want in the kernel.
>=20
> I really like this idea :)
>=20
> A libtouch library that handled calibration (this includes mirroring and=
=20
> swapping the coordinates) and other goodies (like filtering out short=20
> "touch release" events while dragging, etc.) would be a good standard=20
> interface for all applications.
>
> Being in user space would also mean that the library could do things=20
> like keeping a /etc/touch.conf file where it would read default=20
> calibration data, etc.

=2E..and for X11. Maybe we'd start talking about an API for this lib? At
least, my employer is interested I guess. (But this is OT wrt. the Linux
kernel, could you contact me at jbglaw@microdata-pos.de?)

MfG, JBG

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