Bug#497523: HAL way
On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 11:41 +0300, Modestas Vainius wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 2009 m. April 17 d., Friday 11:06:36 Julien Cristau wrote:
> > I'd prefer for this to be configured on the desktop environment level,
> > rather than system-wide in hal (makes it easier to move from hal to
> > something else in the future, for one, and actually makes more sense
> > since this is essentially a user preference).
> Does a typical user expect tapping/vertical edge scrolling to work out-of-the-
> box or not? I think the answer is definitely YES. So if upstream decided to
> disable it (for reasons I still barely understand), I think it is a good idea
> to offer a user to choose another default. At very least, this example is
> worth to be added to /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/examples/ and
> a note in README.Debian.
>
A patch for that would certainly be appreciated. Note that there's
already a NEWS entry about this in git, for which suggestions are also
welcome.
> The bad thing about configuration in DEs is that configuration usually becomes
> DE-only. I prefer xkb to be configured globally for the settings to be shared
> among DEs. The same applies to synaptics.
>
> As for HAL, when it gets dropped, you will simply update the package.
>
The problem with that if we make it a debconf choice is we'd need to
read whatever was configured
in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/synaptics-tapping.fdi or similar, and migrate it
to the new scheme, be it devicekit or whatever. That means a lot of
code in the package that I'd rather avoid.
Cheers,
Julien
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