Looking for direction on synaptics touchpad configuration tool

[Linuxguy123]

On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 18:18 -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> I'm in desperate need of a Synaptics touchpad configuration tool.  I've
> been without one since I started using F10 due to issues between
> libsynaptics and the synaptics driver and ksynaptics/gsynaptics.
> 
> I think its time someone tackled this.  I've written a lot of C and some
> C++ code, but I've never done any open source/Linux stuff.
> 
> I did a little bit of investigation and I found this:
> http://qsynaptics.sourceforge.net/
> 
> I've been in discussion with the author and he is pretty open to having
> someone help him.  I'm thinking that someone might be me.
> 
> What is interesting to me is that he is revising the driver to talk
> directly to the Xorg synaptics driver rather than to the kernel driver
> which has been subject to a lot of change. 
> 
> He forwarded me some code and it looks simple enough.  But the devil is
> in the details, right ?
> 
> What does everyone think of this new approach ?  Does anyone see a
> problem ?


Here is a link to the Xorg Synaptics driver.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/synaptics/