On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:04:49AM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 08:08:43 +0900, Mattia Dongili wrote: > > > Later tonight (JST), if nobody objects, I'd like to upload a new > > xserver-xorg-input-synaptics based on the current upstream code of the > > 1.1 branch. > > Sounds good!
Excellent, let's figure out a good wording for the NEWS file and I'll upload it. > > xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (1.1.1~git20090510-1) unreleased; urgency=low > > > > [ David Nusinow ] > > * Add NEWS.Debian entry about enabling tapping again (closes: #497523) > > I think it'd be nice if the NEWS entry explained how to do this with > synclient rather than xorg.conf / hal. The disadvantage with synclient is that the configuration is not persistent. > The xorg.conf way probably needs things like a ServerLayout section, and > I'm not sure how well it'll keep working. And fdi is not quite a nice > config file format. Or we could point at gpointing-device-settings, > since that has been accepted in the archive now. How about showing the synclient command line and pointing at the existing documentation for how to configure hal/xorg.conf? Something along the lines of: * Tapping has been disabled by default on many touchpads by upstream. If you want to re-enable it, you can do so from within the X environment by running the following commands in a terminal: $ synclient TapButton1=1 $ synclient TapButton2=2 $ synclient TapButton3=3 Note that the configuration will not be permanently modified, to do so please read the documentation about how to set up your xorg.conf file in the synaptics(4) manpage or in /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics. Another alternative is to use desktop environment specific tools like gpointing-device-settings or touchfreeze. Thoughts? I'd even go one step further and start Suggest-ing those 2 packages in this upload. PS: I just took a minute to re-read the docs provided in the package and actually I have to say that there is really no need to provide another fdi example, README.Debian points to /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/11-x11-synaptics.fdi which already contains plenty of examples (might add the TapButton* options eventually). -- mattia :wq! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org