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

[Tom Hughes]

On 16/12/14 00:15, Peter Hutterer wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 10:38:50PM +0000, Tom Hughes wrote:
>> On 15/12/14 21:39, Peter Hutterer wrote:
>>> On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 10:15:41AM +0000, Tom Hughes wrote:
>>>> On 13/12/14 01:10, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> Indeed. Is it, for example, still the case that the libinput developers are
>>>> refusing to consider things like definable button areas on clickpads so you
>>>> can create a proper middle button?
>>>
>>> Have you filed a bug for it?
>>
>> Well based on http://who-t.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/libinput-common-input-stack-for-wayland.html
>> I didn't think there was any point...
>
> tbh, I'm not a fan of the feature at all, but then again a discussion may be
> worth having. But I'm not going to have this discussion on this list here.
>
> Please file a bug or bring it up on the wayland-devel list, then we can
> weigh up the pros and cons there.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87402

Tom

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