Hi. I'm still a student and I want to continue working on project which I did for previous GSoC (though I am not sure if it's a good idea). My previous project is now called "Touchpad KCM" [1]. It is an KCM (+kded module and applet) for touchpads. Now I want to invent new KCM for mouses too. I think it's right time for this change (plasma 2, etc.). - Current KCM for mouses looks bad. At least, "testing area" could be added here too. Also, it changes properties of "master pointer", so touchpad is affected too. - It could be useful to have different configurations (profiles) for different mouses. Of course, appropriate profile should be applied automatically depending on what mouse is plugged in.
Also, AFAIK there aren't any KCMs for ThinkPad's pointing stick. This mouse KCM could (should?) be integrated with touchpad KCM. Or there will be single KCM, handling all pointing devices. There is an app called "Pointing Device Settings" [2] for Gnome, currently I think about something that looks like it. Also, I want to change many things related to touchpad too. For example, now I think there should be different UIs for different backends. I don't think Wayland's libinput will have so many options (if I'm not mistaken, currently it doesn't allow to configure anything), so if UI will be the same for Xorg and Wayland, there will be a lot of disabled widgets - it doesn't look good. Maybe UI will even be generated at runtime, depending on what properties are supported. Questions: 1) Is it acceptable to participate with almost same project? 2) Alex, do you want to be mentor again? [1]: https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/utils/kcm-touchpad/ [2]: https://wiki.gnome.org/Attic/GPointingDeviceSettings _______________________________________________ Kde-hardware-devel mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-hardware-devel
