Re: Input devices capplets

[Matthew Garrett <mjg59 srcf ucam org>]

On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 09:12:59AM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On 11/1/07, Scott James Remnant <scott ubuntu com> wrote:
> >
> > > This needs infrastructure fixes in the lower layers first. SHMConfig
> > > is really not something we want to turn on by default, the touchpad
> > > driver should use the existing Xinput configuration mechanism.
> > >
> > Exactly.  Our patches may not be that useful right now.
> >
> 
> Unfortunately, I don't expect much interest from the Ubuntu side in
> doing this kind of infrastructure work.
> 
> Or do you have plans to do the right thing here in the long term, Scott ?

The Ubuntu patches use XInput, not SHMConfig. However, right now they're 
overloading DEVICE_RESOLUTION rather than using a well-specified device 
control. I'm working with X upstream to define a suitable mechanism for 
doing this.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 srcf ucam org