Comment 15 for bug 1686081

Awesome. Welcome to GNOME proper!

On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 3:35 PM Daniel Frost <email address hidden> wrote:

> Hm, some things you should not do in the middle of the night. :-(
>
> I have tried your code again today. It does work!
> Touchpad works fine, settings are available.
>
> Yesterday, doing a simple copy&paste, I did miss the linebrake after the
> end of the first line here in the launchpad code (same in the email).
>
> So I have to apologize for making you go "Hrmmmm ... curious." :-)
> And thanks a lot for the working touchpad.
>
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> Title:
> If -synaptics is installed, GNOME Mouse & Touchpad Settings doesn't
> work
>
> Status in Release Notes for Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in xorg package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in xubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in xorg source package in Artful:
> Confirmed
> Status in xubuntu-meta source package in Artful:
> Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> I'm splitting this issue off from LP: #1685542 (which made xserver-
> xorg-input-all no longer recommend xserver-xorg-input-synaptics) for
> tracking the remaining issues.
>
> gnome-control-center only supports libinput. If xserver-xorg-input-
> synaptics is installed (because it's used by some desktops which
> haven't been ported to libinput yet), synaptics overrides libinput.
> That makes gnome-control-center's Mouse & Touchpad settings panel only
> show basic settings and important configurations don't work.
>
> Questions
> ---------
> 1. Which desktops/apps still need -synaptics?
> - Unity
> - Xfce?
> - LXDE? LXQt?
> All the other major desktops have already been ported (LP: #1417980)
>
> 2. Can these apps be ported or removed before 18.04 LTS is released?
>
> 3. Can the desktops be ported and how bad is it if they are not ported
> and -synaptics is no longer available?
>
> 4. If -synaptics can't be removed completely from 18.04 LTS, does it
> make sense to have gnome-control-center Conflicts: xserver-xorg-input-
> synaptics?
>
> 5. Is there any other way we can fix this conflict?
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