On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 09:49:48AM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi, > > On 24-02-15 18:34, drago01 wrote: > >On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>Hi All, > >> > >>As described here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/LibinputForXorg > >> > >>We've been working on making xorg-x11-drv-libinput the default input driver > >>for the Xorg xserver under Fedora 22. All the necessary changes for this are > >>in place for the GNOME and KDE desktops. So starting with the next Fedora 22 > >>compose new Fedora 22 Workstation installations will be using > >>xorg-x11-drv-libinput instead of the -evdev and -synaptics drivers. > >> > >>For existing installations the move to libinput will not happen > >>automatically, as we have not added a hard dependency on > >>xorg-x11-drv-libinput so the XFCE, LXDE, etc. spins can keep using the old > >>drivers until they have adopted their mouse/touchpad configuration settings > >>tools to also work with xorg-x11-drv-libinput. > >> > >>If you're running F-22 with GNOME or KDE, please do the following to switch > >>to the new driver: > >> > >>"sudo dnf install xorg-x11-drv-libinput" > >> > >>And let us know if you experience any issues while using the new driver. > > > >So we'd have two sets of users ... those who upgraded and those how > >reinstalled running different drivers for the same hardware? > > Yes, we need to maintain both stacks for a while anyways for e.g. lxde users, > etc. Given that XFCE now supports libinput too, we could reconsider this > and make xorg-drv-libinput a hard dep of the X server so that everyone gets > it, but officially we are past the end of the feature merge window. > > Peter, any thoughts on this ? not this cycle, IMO. there are some behaviour changes between evdev/synaptics and libinput. That's fine for a new install, but changing that on update can be considered a regression for some. At least for F22 I think we should leave things as is. It's a lot of new code too, one cycle should help iron out the common bugs. For F23 dropping evdev and synaptics by default is fine. Cheers, Peter -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
