Re: [PATCH 2/2] skip all blobs that are not touches

On 14.07.2017 10:24, Peter Hutterer wrote:

On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 09:54:03AM +0200, Florian Echtler wrote:

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On Mon, 10 Jul 2017, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

quoted

On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 09:11:53AM +0200, Florian Echtler wrote:

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Related question: we first attempted to label non-touch objects as MT_TOOL_PALM,
but it looks like userspace (Xorg in particular) doesn't actually distinguish
between MT_TOOL_* types; is that correct?

It really should, but I think Peter never got around implementing this.

Also, I think it is a good idea to set touch major to max in this case.
I believe that that will help clients that do no understand MT_TOOL_PALM
to still do palm rejection.

Peter?

Would you consider merging v2 of the patch regardless of the Xorg situation?
Right now, it's a useful bugfix in any case, and we can deal with how to
represent blobs/palms/tokens later on.

sorry about the delay, bit chaotic here. libinput 1.8 was released a week or
so ago and it supports MT_TOOL_PALM, so consider userspace ready for that. I
also have patches to use major/minor for palm detection where appropriate
which will hit git master (my) tonight.

Nevermind :-) Just to clarify, I can now set MT_TOOL_PALM on generic blob
objects, and they will still be available in userspace "on request", but will
not be considered as touch points?

Do you know how "legacy" xserver-xorg-input-evdev will handle this case?

And final question: the SUR40 also is able to identify specific patterns as
tokens (so-called "bytetags", see
https://github.com/floe/surface-2.0/blob/master/bytetag/bytetag.pdf ). What
would be a sensible way to expose these to userspace, too? Add another
MT_TOOL_TOKEN type?

Thanks & best regards, Florian
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