On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 2:10 AM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jaroslav Reznik posted (and >> Change owner(s): Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> > wrote): > >> KDE: limits itself to standard X11 mouse config interfaces, no changes >> needed. > > Not true. We ship kcm_touchpad on the KDE spin, which definitely does depend > on synaptics interfaces (search for "synaptics" in: > https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/utils/kcm-touchpad/repository/revisions/master/entry/src/backends/x11/xlibbackend.cpp ). > Anything that does not use the synaptics driver is not considered a > touchpad. And kcm_touchpad is also in the process of becoming a core part of > upstream Plasma. (It is currently in the git.kde.org playground.) > > Therefore, porting kcm_touchpad (the rewritten 1.x series we currently ship, > not the old, obsolete, 0.3.x version, please make sure you look at the > correct version) is an essential requirement before we can move away from > the synaptics driver. > > > An additional objection I have to this change proposal is that libinput > (deliberately) only implements a small subset of the configurability of the > old drivers, and thus, if we are going to remove the old drivers entirely, > we are taking away flexibility from our users. Longer term we should just use libinput for input and modesetting + glamor for video (ddx) .. that way its one code base that supports everything and not a driver for each piece of hardware. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
