Re: Input devices capplets

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On 11/1/07, Matthew Garrett <mjg59 srcf ucam org> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 09:12:59AM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > On 11/1/07, Scott James Remnant <scott ubuntu com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > This needs infrastructure fixes in the lower layers first. SHMConfig
> > > > is really not something we want to turn on by default, the touchpad
> > > > driver should use the existing Xinput configuration mechanism.
> > > >
> > > Exactly.  Our patches may not be that useful right now.
> > >
> >
> > Unfortunately, I don't expect much interest from the Ubuntu side in
> > doing this kind of infrastructure work.
> >
> > Or do you have plans to do the right thing here in the long term, Scott ?
>
> The Ubuntu patches use XInput, not SHMConfig. However, right now they're
> overloading DEVICE_RESOLUTION rather than using a well-specified device
> control. I'm working with X upstream to define a suitable mechanism for
> doing this.
>

Thats great to hear, thanks.