Re: [RFC/RFT] [patch] Elo serial touchscreen driver

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

On Wed, 2005-02-09 19:54:04 +0000, Paulo Marques <pmarques@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in message <420A6A5C.8030106@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >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.
> 
> I really like this idea :)
> 
> A libtouch library that handled calibration (this includes mirroring and 
> swapping the coordinates) and other goodies (like filtering out short 
> "touch release" events while dragging, etc.) would be a good standard 
> interface for all applications.
>
> Being in user space would also mean that the library could do things 
> like keeping a /etc/touch.conf file where it would read default 
> calibration data, etc.

...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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?)

MfG, JBG

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