F22 System Wide Change: Change xorg input stack to use libinput

[Stephen Gallagher]

On Thu, 2015-01-08 at 13:59 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 08-01-15 13:31, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> = Proposed System Wide Change: Change xorg input stack to use libinput =
> >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/LibinputForXorg
> >>
> >> Change owner(s): Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
> >>
> >> Replace the current (low-level) input xorg drivers with libinput using the
> >> xorg-x11-drv-libinput wrapper.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Hans, could you please update Change page based on FESCo hints?
> 
> As I already replied to the Fesco meeting Summary mail:
> 
> 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.
> 
> 2) The GNOME control panel changes are already done in such a matter
> that things will keep working with the old xorg-x11-drv-evdev +
> xorg-x11-drv-synaptics combo, both for other distrosm, as well as some
> users want to do a manual fallback to the old combo.
> 
> So I think that no changes are necessary to the wiki page.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Hans


Thanks, Hans. We wanted to make sure that we didn't have another
instance of the bluetooth fiasco from a couple releases ago, where GNOME
changed the Bluetooth stack and broke things underneath KDE. If this is
already addressed (or at least irrelevant), that's perfect.
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