Review Request 122331: Add libinput support to kcm-touchpad

[Rajeesh K Nambiar]

> On Feb. 12, 2015, 12:39 a.m., David Edmundson wrote:
> > Built my X with libinput support.
> > 
> > Without this patch I get an erro, with this I get at least some options, though quite a few seemed disabled as they're just not available in libinput.
> 
> Rajeesh K Nambiar wrote:
>     Indeed, many options are disabled because they are simply not available/exposed by libinput. See the discussion and bug listed here: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2015-January/206918.html
>     To test, just install the libinput Xorg driver (xorg-x11-drv-libinput package in Fedora), it will be preferred over synaptics driver.
> 
> David Edmundson wrote:
>     Yeah, not a lot we can do about that for now.
>     
>     Do you have commit access?
> 
> Rajeesh K Nambiar wrote:
>     I now have the developer account (yay).
>     Will check commit access in the evening once I have access to my system.
> 
> Sebastian Kügler wrote:
>     Why will the libinput driver be prefferred over synaptics if synaptics provides more features and is more mature? Is that a packaging-specific thing, do we have any control over it? From the point of a user, this is going to cause regressions.
> 
> David Edmundson wrote:
>     it's a distro/X thing.

X automatically choses libinput driver over synaptics if installed. Users still have the choice to opt out by not installing libinput X driver.
Libinput is the common input stack for Wayland and X, and distros (like Fedora) are going to switch to it in next versions. Please also see the rationale at [1] and [2].
[1] http://who-t.blogspot.com/2014/09/libinput-common-input-stack-for-wayland.html
[2] http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2014/10/libinput-integration-in-kwinwayland/


- Rajeesh


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On Jan. 30, 2015, 7:41 p.m., Rajeesh K Nambiar wrote:
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> (Updated Jan. 30, 2015, 7:41 p.m.)
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> Review request for Plasma, Alexander Mezin and Martin Gräßlin.
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> Repository: kcm-touchpad
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> Description
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> ibinput is a library to handle input devices in Wayland compositors and to provide a generic X.Org input driver. Add libinput support to kcm-touchpad.
> Patch authored by Peter Hutterer.
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> Diffs
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>   src/kcm/touchpad.kcfg 2afe642 
>   src/kcm/ui/tap.ui 8e081ad 
>   src/touchpadbackend.cpp 93e3dc2 
>   src/backends/x11.cmake f208281 
>   src/backends/x11/libinputproperties.c PRE-CREATION 
>   src/backends/x11/synclientproperties.h 5b32b9f 
>   src/backends/x11/xlibbackend.h 3692a60 
>   src/backends/x11/xlibbackend.cpp 3b5e5be 
>   src/kcm/customconfigdialogmanager.cpp 75b03ab 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/122331/diff/
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> Testing
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> Fedora 21 RPM built and tested with Plasma 5.2.
> RPMs available here for testing: https://copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org/results/rajeeshknambiar/kf5-kde-apps/fedora-21-x86_64/kf5-kcm_touchpad-5.1.96-1.fc21/
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> Thanks,
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> Rajeesh K Nambiar
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