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

Hans de Goede hdegoede at redhat.com
Mon Jan 12 13:32:32 UTC 2015


Hi,

On 12-01-15 13:48, Josh Boyer wrote:
> 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.

Ah right, sorry I somehow had Desktop product in my head where it should
be Workstation, you're right. As for the impact of installing
xorg-x11-drv-libinput by default on Workstation, lets discuss that further
on the desktop list, I've just replied to your other mail on this there.

Regards,

Hans


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