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gnome-control-center package

  1. Artful (17.10)
  2. Bug #1686081
  3. Comment #0

Comment 0 for bug 1686081

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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

I'm splitting this issue off from LP: #1685542 (which made xserver-xorg-input-all no longer recommend xserver-xorg-input-synaptics) for tracking the remaining issues.

gnome-control-center only supports libinput. If xserver-xorg-input-synaptics is installed (because it's used by some desktops which haven't been ported to libinput yet), synaptics overrides libinput. That makes gnome-control-center's Mouse & Touchpad settings panel only show basic settings and important configurations don't work.

Questions
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1. Which desktops/apps still need -synaptics?

2. Can these apps be ported or removed before 18.04 LTS is released?

3. Can the desktops be ported and how bad is it if they are not ported and -synaptics is no longer available?

4. If -synaptics can't be removed completely from 18.04 LTS, does it make sense to have gnome-control-center Conflicts: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics?

5. Is there any other way we can fix this conflict?