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This is my personal opinion. No offense to any developer or project, but: The linux touchpad experience... After shifting around responsibilities for a decade
by sandreas 4y ago
This is my personal opinion. No offense to any developer or project, but:
The linux touchpad experience... After shifting around responsibilities for a decade between libinput, compositor, desktop environment, applications and back, not many people seem to really see the importance of the touchpad as input device. Especially precisition, interial/kinetic scrolling + rubberbanding and palm detection do not feel optimal.
After digging around with libinput and libinput-config on fedora 36, I have achieved at least an acceptable level of touchpad usability and I'm looking forward to 2023 :-)
- mariusor 4y agoThe only thing you might want to be mindful of is to place the blame where it lies, not "shifting around responsibilities [..] between libinput, compositor, desktop environment, applications and back". Most of the time the true culprits are the hardware vendors that don't provide technical specifications for their devices, not anyone else. Open source devs have reverse-engineered the pointer acceleration curves for countless devices and should be thanked that one can use an off the shelf laptop with a working touchpad instead of thinking they're somehow to blame.