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JoseExposito / touche

The desktop application to configure Touchégg
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Allow to configure the gestures' sensitivity #81

Closed ema2159 closed 2 years ago

ema2159 commented 2 years ago

Hola José! Thanks for the awesome package. It is awesome to finally be able to have this type of feature in Linux, so thank you for that.

There is a thing that I think would be good to allow to configure from Touché. That would be the motion thresholds to start and end the animations. As a power user, it is relatively straightforward to go to the /lib/systemd/system/touchegg.service file, modify the thresholds from there, and restart the daemo, but for a regular user, it may be a little bit complicated and confusing.

Do you think this is something that it makes sense to implement such a solution?

JoseExposito commented 2 years ago

Hi!

As described in the documentation: https://github.com/JoseExposito/touchegg#daemon-configuration

This feature is present only because the size of certain touchpads is unknown. It is mean to be used only in those cases and most touchpads should provide a decent start/end threshold by default.

In addition, editing the /lib/systemd/system/touchegg.service file required root permissions, and I'd prefer not to add such complexity to the app... Plus I'm not even sure if it is possible to request root access from a Flatpak package.

So, for the moment I don't think that it makes sense to implement this feature. As you mentioned it is a power user feature, so most power users should feel confident editing a text file from the command line.

ema2159 commented 2 years ago

Thanks for your quick answer! That pretty much clarifies it.

I installed touchegg on a Thinkpad and on an MSI laptop. In the Thinkpad it worked nicely but in the MSI didn't because of this sensitivity issue, but I guess it's just because it doesn't provide proper parameters for it's track pad.