Libinput 1.10.4 Makes Touchpads A Bit Snappier

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Libinput 1.10.4 Makes Touchpads A Bit Snappier

Libinput 1.10.14 is now available and while it's just a point release, there is at least one change sure to catch your attention...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Libinput-1.10.4-Released

[M@GOid]

When I transitioned from a Samsung NP535 to a Thinkpad T430, the small touchpad of the Lenovo was distracting. It seems to always run out of space. But I changed the speed of the pointer and I even ask myself why today's laptops have a need for such big touchpads. It is that good.

I can see why people are so afraid to loose responsiveness when migrating to Libinput. Synaptics does such a nice job that is hard to swallow the idea of loosing it for another software with worse functionality.

[phoronix_anon]

Philosophically, libinput has gone the way of GNOME, i.e. the developers think they know better than the users. They refuse to expose configuration options because, and I'm guessing here, they want to simplify or streamline usage and development (by not dealing with 100s of custom configurations). And that is understandable. But the proof is in the pudding and the synaptics driver simply works correctly OOTB, while the libinput driver is still being constantly tweaked behind the scenes and leading to subpar performance. Meanwhile the users that are perturbed by it can't do anything but sit and twiddle their fingers or (most likely) just reinstall the synaptics driver and synclient. The libpinput developers have lost my faith to make the best decisions concerning my hardware. Give us the flexibility to fix/tweak the software because it is quite obvious at this point that the libpinput devs are incapable of shipping a "it just works" solution.

[M@GOid]

Yikes, just installed Kubuntu 18.04 and not only touch-to-click is disabled by default, but the Libinput driver almost cannot be configured by KDE's touchpad app. The sensibility was so high that after touching the surface, the thing was still detecting my fingers about 5 mm high off the touchpad.

Installing the Synaptics driver did bring things back to normal.

[finalzone]

... Meanwhile the users that are perturbed by it can't do anything but sit and twiddle their fingers or (most likely) just reinstall the synaptics driver and synclient. The libpinput developers have lost my faith to make the best decisions concerning my hardware. Give us the flexibility to fix/tweak the software because it is quite obvious at this point that the libpinput devs are incapable of shipping a "it just works" solution.

How about contacting the main maintainer of both libinput and synaptics and provide your input?
What is the specification of your hardware?
Please read more about libinput and synaptics from the same author: http://who-t.blogspot.ca/search?q=Synaptics

[starshipeleven]

why today's laptops have a need for such big touchpads

Apple.

[Falcon1]

How about contacting the main maintainer of both libinput and synaptics and provide your input?
What is the specification of your hardware?
Please read more about libinput and synaptics from the same author: http://who-t.blogspot.ca/search?q=Synaptics

The libpinput developers have lost my faith to make the best decisions concerning my hardware. Give us the flexibility to fix/tweak the software because it is quite obvious at this point that the libpinput devs are incapable of shipping a "it just works" solution.

http://who-t.blogspot.nl/2016/12/xf8...synaptics.html

The top 10 contributors since August 2008 when the first renamed version of xf86-input-synaptics was released are:
8 Simon Thum
10 Hans de Goede
10 Magnus Kessler
13 Alexandr Shadchin
15 Christoph Brill
18 Daniel Stone
18 Henrik Rydberg
39 Gaetan Nadon
50 Chase Douglas
396 Peter Hutterer
...

The other reason I included the commit count in the above: I'm also the main author of libinput. So "the synaptics developers" and "the libinput developers" are effectively the same person, i.e. me. Keep that in mind when you read random comments on the interwebs, it makes it easier to identify people just talking out of their behind.

Posted by Peter Hutterer at 8:47 AM

ROFLMAO