On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 9:31 PM, Miloslav Trmač <m...@redhat.com> wrote:
>> Scrap that, Kevin Kofler pointed me to this post:
>>
>> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-December/205490.html
>>
>> Which I unfortunately missed, so the info I got from KDE upstream is
>> not correct because the KDE spin adds an extra component which does
>> directly talk to the low level Xorg drivers, and there are plans to
>> integrate this into kdebase upstream.
>>
>> As a result of this Peter Hutterer and I have been rethinking the
>> plans for switching to xorg-x11-drv-libinput for F-22. So now we plan
>> to introduce xorg-x11-drv-libinput more carefully / slowly.
>>
>> The new plan is to only do this for the Desktop product, and thus for
>> the GNOME desktop.
>>
>> We've always planned to keep the old drivers around and allow people
>> to use those instead as a fallback plan, and the GNOME input configuration
>> changes which are in the works will also keep supporting the old drivers.
>>
>> I've updated the feature page to reflect this:
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/LibinputForXorg
>>
>> I guess given the changes FESCo may want to re-visit this feature.
>
> If I understand correctly, this would amount to the inability to install both 
> GNOME and KDE side-by-side, with both desktops’ touchpad configuration dialog 
> working without manual involvement (because the driver change is done by 
> installing/uninstalling packages or perhaps xorg.conf changes).

Well that might be solvable see
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/desktop/2015-January/011415.html

> That’s not the end of the world but also not ideal.  Is there anyone 
> interested in porting the kcm module in time for F22?

That's the best solution yes (also see thread on -desktop).
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