Testers needed: KDE kcm_touchpad libinput support

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Thu Jan 22 06:45:34 UTC 2015


Please add this copr
https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/whot/kcm_touchpad/

Please review this branch:
https://github.com/whot/kcm_touchpad/tree/wip/libinput-support

Please test this on F21 and F22

Please monitor and report issues in this bug here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1184713

Please send beer. No? oh well, was worth a try... :)

Anwyay, I've tested this on F21 and with xorg/libinput bits equiv to
rawhide and it works for both. As I point out in the bug: 
"Note that we need to keep supporting both synaptics and libinput. libinput
has less knobs to tweak, so a large portion of the UI is now disabled.
Long-term upstream KDE should reconsider the design of the kcm_touchpad
module to accommodate for both drivers, but for now I think this will do.

Also note that disable-while-typing is disabled because libinput does it
automatically (or something very similar anyway).

Also note that the Fedora 20 libinput version does not support switching
scroll methods, so that'll be permanently disabled in the GUI (but enabled
on the touchpad). And edge scrolling is only available on single-touch
touchpads, so that's permanently disabled in the GUI too."

So this is the classic 90% case to make things work. A bit of polish is
needed but I'd like for upstream to help out with that.

Cheers,
   Peter



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