Review Request 125465: kcm_keyboard: Use udev device notifier when xcb-xinput is not available

[Martin Gräßlin]

> On Oct. 1, 2015, 8:01 a.m., Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> > Did you check KWin's udev helper classes? Instead of re-inventing the wheel it might be better to share the code in case it would be useful. It's in kwin.git/udev.h and udev.cpp
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> David Rosca wrote:
>     I did now, it doesn't seem to support device added/removed notifications.
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> David Rosca wrote:
>     Well, it does export UdevMonitor. Ok, I will rewrite it to use kwin's udev classes.
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> David Rosca wrote:
>     But kwin does not install the header and also has udev only as optional dependency. So I'm not sure that would really help, instead I think it would be better if this functionality was offered by solid (which already internally use udevqt).
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>     In any case, I'd like to get it into 5.5 as it fixes quite annoying bug (losing keyboard and mouse settings), so maybe we can fix this later?

> so maybe we can fix this later?

all right. And I'm happy to migrate my kwin code to use udevqt if it can serve us. Btw. it's only optional in KWin to enable building on BSDs.


- Martin


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On Oct. 1, 2015, 10:05 a.m., David Rosca wrote:
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> (Updated Oct. 1, 2015, 10:05 a.m.)
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> Review request for Plasma.
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> Bugs: 346336
>     https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=346336
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> Repository: plasma-desktop
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> Description
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> xcb-xinput is not available on some distributions (eg. Debian https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=733227).
> This patch adds udev device discovery to reapply settings when adding new keyboard / mouse.
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> Diffs
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>   CMakeLists.txt 193238a 
>   cmake/modules/FindUDev.cmake PRE-CREATION 
>   kcms/keyboard/CMakeLists.txt 99f4bb3 
>   kcms/keyboard/config-keyboard.h.cmake PRE-CREATION 
>   kcms/keyboard/kcm_add_layout_dialog.h a2c0ac5 
>   kcms/keyboard/kcm_add_layout_dialog.cpp 64551d9 
>   kcms/keyboard/kcm_keyboard_widget.h 5994ea4 
>   kcms/keyboard/tests/CMakeLists.txt 5d7a3e7 
>   kcms/keyboard/udev_helper.h PRE-CREATION 
>   kcms/keyboard/udev_helper.cpp PRE-CREATION 
>   kcms/keyboard/xinput_helper.h af70365 
>   kcms/keyboard/xinput_helper.cpp 0ad7e9c 
>   kcms/keyboard/xkb_rules.h ecebd6d 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/125465/diff/
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> Testing
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> Plugging in keyboard is now correctly recognized.
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> Thanks,
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> David Rosca
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