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

[Peter Hutterer]

On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 11:50:54AM -0500, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
> > 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.

Yeah, we've been in contact with a few KDE developers/maintainers. So far
the feedback has been positive so I think we're good on that front.

Cheers,
  Peter