[MeeGo-dev] Meego Multitouch support vs. New Ubuntu Multitouch API

[Tapani Pälli]

On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 04:19 +0200, ext Eugene Seah wrote:
> Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > On Wednesday 18. August 2010 22.20.23 Sivan Greenberg wrote:
> >   
> >> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org> wrote:
> >>     
> >>> On Wednesday 18 August 2010 13:10:23 Cláudio Sampaio wrote:
> >>>       
> >>>> Hi.
> >>>>
> >>>> I've search through meego's site for "multitouch" and couldn't find
> >>>> anything relating to its multitouch support.
> >>>>
> >>>> How multitouch support in Meego relates to that new Multitouch stack to
> >>>> be released by Canonical? http://lwn.net/Articles/400455/rss  Is it
> >>>> done differently? Can Meego actually use Canonical's framework?
> >>>>         
> >>> It's done completely differently. It uses the Qt multitouch and gesture
> >>> support only. It's built-in.
> >>>       
> >> So MTF is wrappers around Qt's multi touch and gesture api? 
> >>     
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> >   
> >> What does built-in here means?
> >>     
> >
> > It's inside of Qt. It's not provided by an external library.
> >
> >   
> Follow-on questions: Does Qt's multitouch functionality already work 
> currently on MeeGo? Even though Xorg evdev driver isn't yet capable of 
> detecting multitouch-capable devices (at least from my understanding)?

My understanding is that evdev driver will support multitouch in the
future, meanwhile you could consider using 'mtev' driver :

http://gitorious.org/xorg-next/xf86-input-mtev


> If multitouch on Qt does already work, how do we tell Qt about our 
> multitouch device, is there some non-default setting that needs to be 
> configured?
> 
> Thanks.
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// Tapani