= Proposed System Wide Change: Change xorg input stack to use libinput = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/LibinputForXorg Change owner(s): Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> Replace the current (low-level) input xorg drivers with libinput using the xorg-x11-drv-libinput wrapper. == Detailed Description == Currently xorg uses different input drivers depending on the device type. This makes it impossible to do things like middle button scrolling on the trackpoint on laptops where the trackpoint buttons are software-emulated buttons on the touchpad. Besides this the xf86-input-synaptics driver was never really designed for multi-touch touchpads and this causes various issues. For Wayland we've been working on a new improved input stack, which is to be shared by all compositors and lives inside libinput. We plan to replace the current (low-level) input xorg drivers with libinput using the xorg-x11-drv- libinput wrapper. == Scope == Besides xorg changes, this will also require changes to the control panel applets for mouse / touchpad configuration in the various desktop environments, as those all are hardcoded to use the xorg-x11-drv-synaptics specific interfaces. * Proposal owners: Package libinput and xorg-drv-input-libinput (done), make sure that xorg-drv- input-libinput has the necessary config interfaces for control panel mouse/touchpad config applets (wip). Write patches for gnome-control-center mouse/touchpad capplet. Coordinate with other desktop environments. * Other developers: GNOME: merge the gnome-control-center patches. KDE: limits itself to standard X11 mouse config interfaces, no changes needed. Other Desktop Environments: adjust control-panel code to deal with xorg-x11-drv-libinput, merge these changes. * Release engineering: N/A * Policies and guidelines: N/A _______________________________________________ devel-announce mailing list devel-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
