Add touchpad-like mode Enhancement suggestion

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Small desktop elements are impossible to control with the touch screen.

Suggested solution:
Implement an input mode "touch pad"; The whole screen should work like a
touch pad on a laptop (swiping anywhere on the screen will move the mouse
pointer in the respective direction: the mouse does NOT jump under the
finger first; a tap somewhere on the screen is a left-click at the current
mouse cursor position: NOT at the position where I tap).

Panning the display should be done like a virtual desktop in linux which is
larger than the physical screen: moving the mouse pointer to the left will
simultaneously pan the screen to the right, so the left side comes into view.

Altogether, this will pan the screen to the LEFT when you swipe to the
RIGHT. Not what the iPhone does, but this should not matter. Since all
Desktop/laptop Apps can be controlled with a Touchpad, this will solve all
input problems.  

Original issue reported on code.google.com by steie...@gmail.com on 13 May 2010 at 9:01

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Latest dev version on downloads page has contributed touchpad mode as you 
describe: http://code.google.com/p/android-vnc-viewer/downloads/list

Seems to have a few problems on high-latency connections

Please post comments here

Original comment by googlec...@antlersoft.com on 1 Jul 2010 at 6:48

• Changed state: Started
• Added labels: Type-Enhancement
• Removed labels: Type-Defect

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Original comment by googlec...@antlersoft.com on 2 Jul 2010 at 4:16

• Changed title: Add touchpad-like mode Enhancement suggestion

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In market with 0.4.3

Original comment by googlec...@antlersoft.com on 7 Jul 2010 at 1:33

• Changed state: Fixed

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I suggestion for improvement: at the moment, a 1 cm swipe corresponds to a cm 
mm movement of the cursor on the display. This is a huge distance on the mobile 
(where most controls appear only 1 to 2 mm large), on a 14-inch laptop it is a 
small movement, less than the spacing of most GUI-buttons.
Therefore it is much harder to position the cursor over a control on the mobile 
than with the touch pad of a laptop.
Suggestion: add a "transmission factor" int the touch pad; a 1 mm swipe should 
move the mouse cursor by the same number of pixels as on the laptop. For me, 
this would correspond to a factor 4: 4 mm swipe->1 mm movement on mobile!

Original comment by steie...@gmail.com on 16 Aug 2010 at 8:47