Bug#993171: mutter: Is it time to stop patching synaptics support back in?

[Daniel van Vugt]

Libinput is enough for most people, although it does have some touchpad 
sloppiness on some laptops that I only know how to fix with Synaptics. I don't 
know if people are actually making use of it though...

It might be a better idea to drop the Synaptics patch and we can propose patches 
to Libinput instead.


On 28/8/21 6:43 pm, Simon McVittie wrote:
> Source: mutter
> Version: 40.2.1-1
> Severity: normal
> X-Debbugs-Cc:  daniel.van.vugt at canonical.com
> 
> We are currently patching both mutter and gnome-control-center to reinstate
> synaptics support, a change that was specifically rejected by upstream in
> <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/37>.
> 
> This seems to have been intended to be a temporary thing for Ubuntu 18.04.
> Since then, we've had two stable releases of Debian and two LTS releases
> of Ubuntu, and GNOME in Debian has switched to Wayland by default; so
> it seems like it might be worth revisiting that decision. Do we still
> need the synaptics X11 driver, or is libinput now enough?
> 
>      smcv
>