Robert Schweikert - 6:44 29.11.13 wrote:
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.
It is just a GUI on top of touchpad settings. So you removed just GUI (not driver) to set your touchpad properties, so no reason for your touchpad to stop working ;-) -- Michal HRUSECKY SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. openSUSE Team Lihovarska 1060/12 PGP 0xFED656F6 19000 Praha 9 mhrusecky[at]suse.cz Czech Republic http://michal.hrusecky.net http://www.suse.cz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org