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[Bug 1417980] Re: Add support for unified Xorg input driver

 

We had a discussion between Laney, Seb, Timo in #ubuntu-desktop.  We can
not be sure what effect this change will have on everyone, so we are not
targeting for X because LTS.  Instead this will (hopefully) happen early
in the Y cycle.


** Tags added: rls-y-incoming

** Also affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu Y-series)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: kcm-touchpad (Ubuntu Y-series)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: unity-control-center (Ubuntu Y-series)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** No longer affects: kcm-touchpad (Ubuntu Xenial)

** No longer affects: unity-control-center (Ubuntu Xenial)

** No longer affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu Xenial)

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Title:
  Add support for unified Xorg input driver

Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in kcm-touchpad package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in unity-control-center package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in gnome-control-center source package in y-series:
  New
Status in kcm-touchpad source package in y-series:
  New
Status in unity-control-center source package in y-series:
  New

Bug description:
  xserver-xorg-input-libinput driver will eventually replace current
  input drivers (evdev, synaptics at first, wacom later). This needs
  changes to the desktop configuration tools.

  
  background info:
  http://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDC2014/XDC2014HuttererLibInput/xdc-2014.html
  https://fosdem.org/2015/schedule/event/libinput/attachments/slides/591/export/events/attachments/libinput/slides/591/libinput_xorg.pdf

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