On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 09:49:48AM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
Hi,
On 24-02-15 18:34, drago01 wrote:
>On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>>Hi All,
>>
>>As described here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/LibinputForXorg
>>
>>We've been working on making xorg-x11-drv-libinput the default input driver
>>for the Xorg xserver under Fedora 22. All the necessary changes for this are
>>in place for the GNOME and KDE desktops. So starting with the next Fedora 22
>>compose new Fedora 22 Workstation installations will be using
>>xorg-x11-drv-libinput instead of the -evdev and -synaptics drivers.
>>
>>For existing installations the move to libinput will not happen
>>automatically, as we have not added a hard dependency on
>>xorg-x11-drv-libinput so the XFCE, LXDE, etc. spins can keep using the old
>>drivers until they have adopted their mouse/touchpad configuration settings
>>tools to also work with xorg-x11-drv-libinput.
>>
>>If you're running F-22 with GNOME or KDE, please do the following to switch
>>to the new driver:
>>
>>"sudo dnf install xorg-x11-drv-libinput"
>>
>>And let us know if you experience any issues while using the new driver.
>
>So we'd have two sets of users ... those who upgraded and those how
>reinstalled running different drivers for the same hardware?
Yes, we need to maintain both stacks for a while anyways for e.g. lxde users,
etc. Given that XFCE now supports libinput too, we could reconsider this
and make xorg-drv-libinput a hard dep of the X server so that everyone gets
it, but officially we are past the end of the feature merge window.
Peter, any thoughts on this ?
not this cycle, IMO. there are some behaviour changes between
evdev/synaptics and libinput. That's fine for a new install, but changing
that on update can be considered a regression for some. At least
for F22 I think we should leave things as is.
It's a lot of new code too, one cycle should help iron out the common bugs.
For F23 dropping evdev and synaptics by default is fine.
Cheers,
Peter