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

[drago01]

On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 2:10 AM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> Jaroslav Reznik posted (and
>> Change owner(s): Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
> wrote):
>
>> KDE: limits itself to standard X11 mouse config interfaces, no changes
>> needed.
>
> Not true. 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.
>
>
> An additional objection I have to this change proposal is that libinput
> (deliberately) only implements a small subset of the configurability of the
> old drivers, and thus, if we are going to remove the old drivers entirely,
> we are taking away flexibility from our users.

Longer term we should just use libinput for input and modesetting +
glamor for video (ddx) .. that way its one code base that supports
everything and not a driver for each piece of hardware.