On 11/28/2013 05:53 PM, Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
Hi all,
After having debugged an issue of not being able to configure TouchPads, it became apparent that some bitrot is at fault here:
gsynaptics
still lies around in our repos and happens to build.. but, that does not make it any usable.
The daemon is configured to only fire up in a gnome session, where this used to be 'preferred long ago', but nowadays, this functionality is provided by GNOME intrnally, and it interacts directly with syndaemon (from xf86-input-synaptics). GNOME still has code detecting the presence of gsynaptics and would move itself out of the way, but then of course anything the user does in gnome-control-center is useless; the user would have to (and need to know to) configure all the settings in gsynaptics.. which is an ugly tool and provides no additional functionality (in my view).
so, if nobody comes up with a very compelling argument as to why gsynaptics should not be removed from Factory (and this, openSUSE 13.2), I will file for a delete request soon.
Removed gsynaptics on a laptop running XFCE and the touchpad still operated as I expected it. Thus there appears to be no blocker on the XFCE side. Later, Robert -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU SUSE-IBM Software Integration Center LINUX Tech Lead Public Cloud Architect rjschwei@suse.com rschweik@ca.ibm.com 781-464-8147 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org