[Development] need to handle touch events rather than depending on mouse event synthesis

[adriano.1.rezende at nokia.com]

>Torsdag 1. mars 2012 19.48.15 skrev ext Alan Alpert:
> Perhaps we could just add an enum to MouseArea? EventType { MouseEvents,
> TouchEvents, MouseAndTouchEvents (default) }. That allow you more
> fine-grained control, with identical default behavior that doesn't require
> event synthesis that messes with other elements. Not to mention that the
> common case is you don't care what pointy thing they used to say 'do that',
> there are devices with both mouse and touch and often the app really
> doesn't care which it was.

I agree. I think this is the best solution given the deadline.
It will not break any apps and we can get rid of this event synthesis for good.
Is there anybody already working on this fix?

Br,
Adriano