Guys, thanks for your answers, I going to try them<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">2009/5/9 Albert Cahalan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:acahalan@gmail.com">acahalan@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Martin Langhoff writes:<br>> 2009/5/9 david <david at <a href="http://leeming-consulting.com/" target="_blank">leeming-consulting.com</a>>:<br>
<div class="im"><br>>> They have better luck (maybe my fingers are sweaty more than most)<br>>> and I have noticed students often wrapping cloth around their<br>>> finger to use the touch pad. It remains a real problem, but people<br>
>> do get by.<br>><br>> The devel@ list archive has similar reports from the Nepal team.<br>> IIRC, many kids there had a small piece of cloth to sweep the pad<br>> of moisture and dust. Those reports were an important factor in the<br>
> switch to a new touchpad, so as Daniel suggests, do request a sample<br>> one at least.<br><br></div>The old laptops can perform better than the new ones if you do this:<br><br>1. make the resistive/pressure mode be relative instead of absolute<br>
2. make the resistive/pressure mode be the only mode<br><br>Maybe this needs to be a config option in Sugar.<br><br>The new touchpads might be less awful in bad conditions, but nothing<br>is ever going to make a capacitative touch pad work really well in<br>
bad conditions. The technology is simply not suited to mud, snot,<br>cheese sauce, sweat, and so on. It's designed for adults in cool dry<br>office environments.<br>
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