[Kde-hardware-devel] GSoC idea: Better touchpad support (I'm student)

[Àlex Fiestas]

Wow, this sounds really good !

Are you planning to implement the rest of the KCM or just the bits you
mentioned ?


On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Alexander Mezin
<mezin.alexander at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I usually installed synaptiks to be able to configure touchpad and
> enable/disable it.
>
> However, now synaptiks is unmaintained and doesn't work for me anymore
> (for example, it isn't able to automatically disable touchpad when external
> mouse is plugged in because of changes in udev bingings).
> Also, it's written in Python, so it needs python bindings.
>
> I think it's better to implement:
> KControl module (C++)
> Service that disables/enables touchpad (C++)
> Plasmoid that shows current state of the touchpad and allows to manually
> enable/disable it (QtQuick)
>
> Some time ago I built a Python script that automatically disabled touchpad
> when mouse is plugged in. But it wasn't too easy to replace broken part of
> synaptiks with my script, so I think it's better to solve all problems at
> once.
>
> Does this idea look interesting to someone?
>
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