Make gesturetest with no arguments Just Work

[Mark Shuttleworth]

Please can we make gesturetest default to assuming all gestures possible? Equivalent perhaps to gesturetest 0 0 0xffffffff

This way, we can just tell people "run gesturetest" and they'll see something useful, rather than remembering the magic flags and masks. This is important for those of us who cannot remember anything any more :-)

[Rafi (rafi-seas)]

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On 08/21/10 02:49, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Please can we make gesturetest default to assuming all gestures
> possible? Equivalent perhaps to gesturetest 0 0 0xffffffff

I've posted a branch at lp:~rafi-seas/+junk/utouch-gesturetest_no-args that
defaults to that (with a few more f's). Testing the normal package with those
parameters seems to work fine.

I can't seem to build from source. Are the build-deps or the source broken?
Anyway, I'd appreciate verification.

Rafi
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[Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl)]

 On 21/08/10 10:28, Rafi wrote:
> I've posted a branch at lp:~rafi-seas/+junk/utouch-gesturetest_no-args

Is there a utouch-gesturetest project on LP? If so, it should have a
trunk, and branches posted to that project
(~rafi-seas/utouch-gesturetest/foo) will be easier for others to find.

Mark

[Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl)]

... and thanks for the patch, regardless of push location :-)

[Rafi (rafi-seas)]

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On 08/21/10 06:00, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> On 21/08/10 10:28, Rafi wrote:
>> I've posted a branch at lp:~rafi-seas/+junk/utouch-gesturetest_no-args
>
> Is there a utouch-gesturetest project on LP? If so, it should have a
> trunk, and branches posted to that project
> (~rafi-seas/utouch-gesturetest/foo) will be easier for others to find.
>
> Mark

Good to know. I haven't fully groked bzr and lp namespaces.

Thank you,
Rafi

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[Duncan McGreggor (oubiwann)]

Rafi,

We're creating branches with <ticket number>-<short description>. This is something that both Neil Patel and I use to great effect and at the Isle of Man sprint we decided to start doing for all ticket-based work (which will become the norm very shortly). Just in case it's not evident, just to this:

  bzr push lp:~rafi-seas/utouch-gesturestest/621600-no-args

Once you've pushed your branch to the utouch-gesturetest LP namespace, it will show up in code.launchpad.net/utouch-gesturetest, even though it's under ~rafi-seas.

Thanks!

d

[Mohamed Amine Ilidrissi (ilidrissi.amine)]

I created a new branch from Rafi's branch that fixes the bug once and for all, since the original code had compiler errors and didn't fix the bug. But you did a good job, Rafi :)

The merge proposal is here: https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~ilidrissi.amine/utouch-gesturetest/621600-no-args/+merge/36641

[Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl)]

 \o/ :)

[Mohamed Amine Ilidrissi (ilidrissi.amine)]

A question: will that make it into 10.10, especially with the FinalFreeze? Or do we have to wait until 11.04?
Just asking :)

[Chase Douglas (chasedouglas)]

I'm sorry I haven't gotten back to this sooner, but I'm against this change. gesturetest is not a demo program that you run to see things fly across your screen when you perform gestures :). It's a test tool that must be used in specific ways to get the results you want to see.

For example, if you are interested in testing rotation gestures, you should subscribe only to them and not to other gestures. As soon as you start to listen for other gestures things get very confusing. It can be hard to understand why you might be receiving drag gestures when you perform a pivot rotation, and subscribing to all gestures by default only exacerbates the issue. Essentially, I don't want people to run gesturetest and make decisions based on poor testing scenarios.

[Chase Douglas (chasedouglas)]

Mohamed, aside from my disagreements on whether the patch should be applied, thanks a bunch for making the effort on this.

[Mohamed Amine Ilidrissi (ilidrissi.amine)]

@Chase: No problem, just don't forget to thank Rafi too :)
Aside from that, please see my comment on the merge proposal :)

[Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl)]

Chase, I disagree, there's a valid use case in being able to eyeball the
full stream in the default case. I have often used it, and it's a pain
to have to remember the boilerplate. So, I'd ask the change is made. If
you'd like to think of ways the stream-of-data could be more useful,
that's a separate issue :-)

Mark

[Duncan McGreggor (oubiwann)]

Chase, I'm with Mark on this one. Regardless of the original intent of the tool, people will use it, and in ways that one doesn't expect. This cannot be controlled, and we should make it as easy to use as possible.

That being said, the misunderstanding that arise as a result can be addressed with education. Your concerns are best countered with an easy-to read Ubuntu wiki page in the Multitouch section. I've added a bug for that here: bug #649746.

[Chase Douglas (chasedouglas)]

I still disagree, but I'm in the minority and this isn't a huge deal. I'll merge the changes into gesturetest when I have a chance.

[Chase Douglas (chasedouglas)]

Gesturetest is obsolete. Closing bug.