Development Request: a new way to use the touchpad

Hey,
I find the current use of the touchpad exhausting and frustrating.
Every movement of the pointer takes forever - it takes several scrolls to get from one edge of the screen to another -
and if I speed up the mouse - it gets really not comfortable.
So I'd like my synaptics touch pad to act like this:
When I first tap the touch pad, the pointer jumps on the screen to a point proportional to where
I tapped the touch pad. For example, if I tap the top right corner of the touch pad, I wish the pointer to
"jump" to the same location on the screen, irrelevant to where it was before the tap.
After the first tap, the touch pad should act normally - meaning exactly as it acts now ("the regular way").
If I stop touching the touch pad for a certain period of time (say, 2-3 seconds), it again should wait
for the first tap - to make the "magic jump".
I think this should minimize our use of the touch pad at about 80%.
I don't know any tools to make this happen (under X/KDE).
What do you think?
Fiod
Last edited by fiod (2008-02-14 14:44:11)

fiod wrote:
I say - don't ask what the synaptics developer can do for you, ask what you can do for him (and the community)
good call,

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