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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
