detecting tablet mode

[Martin Flöser]

I want to provide a dbus service in KWin to export the state. Apps cannot use libinput directly, one needs root for that.

Cheers
Martin

Am 4. Januar 2018 23:22:43 MEZ schrieb Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com>:
>Hi all,
>one thing i wanted to look into, is to detect when a trasformable
>laptop goes 
>in tablet mode from applications, so that plasmashell and kirigami apps
>can 
>adapt themselves and do things(tm)
>KWin does that (on wayland) already, and i see it uses libinput for
>that, like 
>i seem to evince from this recent commit (and the logic when to show
>the on 
>screen keyboard)
>https://cgit.kde.org/kwin.git/commit/?
>id=ac2f41c86d3b5b13ba3655e6c2f17f59a4cb7f01
>
>would a normal application use libinput too or is something reserved to
>the 
>compositor?
>what would be the right way(tm) there? a dbus signal from KWin?