Hello Dmitry, Le jeudi 25 février 2010 à 02:17 -0800, Dmitry Torokhov a écrit : > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:46:29PM +0100, Michael Thayer wrote: > > Le mercredi 24 février 2010 à 02:02 -0800, Dmitry Torokhov a écrit : > > > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 09:55:33PM +0100, Michael Thayer wrote: > > > > I'm not sure, if we ended up doing a completely new device, how different it > > > > would end up being. Emulating a touchscreen or a tablet makes sense for us as > > > > these are both something known, which will work with existing systems without > > > > too much tweaking > > > > [snip] > > > But the virtual mouse is not a touchscreen or a tablet, it behaves > > > differently. > > What would you suggest emulating that exists in the real world? > > There are not many real devices that have teh same characteristics as > virtual mouse generating absolute coordinates. Umm, the closest would be > a wacom tablet when used with its own mouse. We decided in the end to emulate a USB tablet, as some other virtualisers do. It works well out of the box with recent Linux distributions, and while older ones recognise it as a touchpad (in fact they use it through /dev/input/mice), it still provides a reasonable user experience until the user has installed our guest drivers. Thank you again for your comments and assistance. Regards, Michael -- Sun Microsystems GmbH Michael Thayer Werkstrasse 24 VirtualBox engineer 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:michael.thayer@xxxxxxx Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht Muenchen: HRB 161028 Geschaeftsfuehrer: Thomas Schroeder, Wolfgang Engels Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Haering -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
