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

[Josh Boyer]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 5:32 AM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 08-01-15 13:59, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 08-01-15 13:31, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>
>>>> = Proposed System Wide Change: Change xorg input stack to use libinput =
>>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/LibinputForXorg
>>>>
>>>> Change owner(s): Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
>>>>
>>>> Replace the current (low-level) input xorg drivers with libinput using
>>>> the
>>>> xorg-x11-drv-libinput wrapper.
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Hans, could you please update Change page based on FESCo hints?
>>
>>
>> As I already replied to the Fesco meeting Summary mail:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 2) The GNOME control panel changes are already done in such a matter
>> that things will keep working with the old xorg-x11-drv-evdev +
>> xorg-x11-drv-synaptics combo, both for other distrosm, as well as some
>> users want to do a manual fallback to the old combo.
>>
>> So I think that no changes are necessary to the wiki page.
>
>
> Scrap that, Kevin Kofler pointed me to this post:
>
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-December/205490.html
>
> Which I unfortunately missed, so the info I got from KDE upstream is
> not correct because the KDE spin adds an extra component which does
> directly talk to the low level Xorg drivers, and there are plans to
> integrate this into kdebase upstream.
>
> As a result of this Peter Hutterer and I have been rethinking the
> plans for switching to xorg-x11-drv-libinput for F-22. So now we plan
> to introduce xorg-x11-drv-libinput more carefully / slowly.
>
> The new plan is to only do this for the Desktop product, and thus for
> the GNOME desktop.

Erm, except there isn't a Desktop product.  There's Workstation, which
is actually looking at including KDE as well.

josh