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Did you actually talk to other project maintainers and get feedback that they would only be interested if it were also available for X before starting down this
by tssva 6y ago
Did you actually talk to other project maintainers and get feedback that they would only be interested if it were also available for X before starting down this path?
- p12tic 6y agoI haven't asked this question unfortunately. Adding touchpad gestures needs changes in every GUI toolkit library except GTK and every application we would like to support. So I trusted my own experience of seeing the amount of effort needed to contribute an improvement for niche use cases. To make matters worse, an initial OK from a maintainer often does not really mean a lot. What matters is the actual time commitment to discuss design and review patches. Issues that increase the amount of effort needed for long-term maintenance and end-user support tend to decrease maintainer engagement a lot. Wayland-only touchpad gestures splits the user-base long term and thus fits this criteria very well. At this moment I'm not really sure if I would go the same path had I knew all the information I know now. Having said that, we've only spent around a single man-month of effort working on this. In the grand scheme of things this detour is tiny.