[Development] Source incompatible Qt 5 change: Removing the QTouchEvent::TouchPoint::Primary flag

[Thiago Macieira]

On Thursday, 12 de January de 2012 14.26.41, Samuel =?ISO-8859-1?Q?R=F8dal?= 
wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'd like to remove the QTouchEvent::TouchPoint::Primary flag, as per
> change request http://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,12928
> 
> The current purpose of the flag is simply to note that a touch point is
> duplicated as a mouse event by the windowing system (to prevent Qt from
> also generating a synthesized mouse event from that touch event). The
> linked change moves this duplication logic out of the windowing system
> interface (platform plugins, generic plugins, etc), and into QtGui.
> 
> If we kept it as always returning false it could mask incorrect behavior
> in the user application.

I didn't get it.

Will there be touch points duplicated as mouse events?

If so, is the user supposed to know about that?

And if so, how does the user know about it?

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