Touchpad Configuration Module For KDE
KDE is currently missing a way to easily configure a touchpad for advanced options like scroll area, disable touchpad while typing, etc.
KDE should have a kcm module for configuring this, as well as some applet to change some simple things like enable/disable, etc. This used to be provided by the qsynaptics package, which is no longer maintained and is only for KDE/QT 3.X.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- Jonathan Riddell
- Priority:
- Undefined
- Drafter:
- Roderick B. Greening
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- Roderick B. Greening
- Definition:
- Approved
- Series goal:
- Accepted for lucid
- Implementation:
-
Implemented
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Jonathan Riddell
- Completed by
- Jonathan Riddell
Related branches
Whiteboard
Jonathan Thomas: You mean like: http://
Rod Greening: No. The implementation needs to be forward thinking and use xinput, which is the preferred way of dealing with all things input related.
Michał Żarłok: Sure it is, so I'm going to change backend from SHM to xinput, but I need some time or help.
Rod Greening: At this point it's basically pretty open for discussion as to how we go about this. The only requirements are: 1. xinput 2. kcm module integration 3. Able to be merged into upstream KDE. Outside of that, anything is fair game.
Michał Żarłok: Today I've updated kcm_touchpad to version 0.2.0 based on Xinput. It seriously needs polishing yet, but tell me if I'm going right direction.
Rod Greening: using xinput is definitely a great start :) I'll try and do some testing soon. We will likely then reference this in our UDS discussion and come up with a plan/list of todo's for any issues and deficiencies, etc. Thank's for your work on this.
