Adding xorg-x11-drv-libinput to the Desktop's set of default packages

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 12 15:28:51 UTC 2015


On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 4:24 PM, Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik at redhat.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 2:28 PM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Can't we just make whatever the package that contains the KDE control
>> panel to carry a /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ snippet that enables the
>> synaptics driver?
>> That way you get libinput by default and synaptics if you install KDE
>> ... as GNOME handles both it won't break GNOME.
>>
>> In F23 once KDE is ported we can stop shipping that file.
>
> As far as I understand, KDE upstream is now porting configuration
> module to KDE Frameworks 5 - so it means they already have quite a lot
> of work ahead [...]

Also note https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88215 ...
unlikely to end up in F22 but at some point "just not installing
synaptics" wouldn't be enough (unless the xserver gets changes to
prefer it but that would cause issues with upgrades).


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