http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=979554
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=979554#c5
Stefan Dirsch
(In reply to Stefan Dirsch from comment #3)
Reopen in order to track which input drivers being installed by default and with which priority these are chosen by X. Reassigning to myself.
Stefan, I'm not sure if this is a good idea. For Wacom we can do this as we have a pretty good idea about device IDs which are supported by the xf86-input-wacom driver. As mentioned in comment #1 Synaptics only has the 'catch all' rule 'MatchIsTouchpad'. So all devices with the 'touchpad' property will match. Which may include some touchpad devices which are not Synaptics.
What we could do howeer, is to give *-synaptics.conf an higher priority than libinput and no longer install the synaptics driver by default. This way, whoever wants to take advantage of the additional features of the Synaptics driver can just go and install it to get them without renaming any files or changing any config files.
This would have been my plan. Only install libinput by default. And give also synaptics and evdev a higher conf priority. If one installs one of these drivers manually he should get it. Another pro is that users updating the system won't get migrated to libinput, which obviously has a different set of features. Current conf priority plan: libinput: 060 (upstream prio) evdev: 065 (patch), remove Supplements: xorg-x11-server wacom: 070 (upstream prio), remove Supplements: xorg-x11-server synaptics: 070 (patch), remove Supplements: xorg-x11-server -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.