Re: Summary/Minutes from today's FESCo Meeting (2015-01-07)

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> Dne 7.1.2015 v 21:14 Stephen Gallagher napsal(a):
>  > * #1379 F22 System Wide Change: Change xorg input stack to use libinput
>  >  - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/LibinputForXorg  (sgallagh,
>  >   19:51:28)
>  >   * AGREED: Approved with two caveats: 1) Both GNOME and KDE must be
>  >     updated by the contingency date or it goes into effect and 2) the
>  >     contingency plan should note that it will may require reverting
>  >     changes to the control panels as well. (+7, 0, -0)  (sgallagh,
>  >     19:57:46)
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> WRT to the 2 caveats:
> 
> 1) As mentioned in the feature page KDE does not need any changes since
> its mouse settings panel does not talk directly to low level Xorg drivers.


Quoting Kevin Kofler:
> 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.

I don’t claim to know enough whether this is an “essential requirement” but it does seem like something to discuss and agree on with the KDE maintainers.
    Mirek
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