From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: libinput support in Eamcs? Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2018 20:33:38 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1533601953 25151 195.159.176.226 (7 Aug 2018 00:32:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2018 00:32:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 07 02:32:29 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fmpvJ-0006Qn-5F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2018 02:32:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36756 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fmpxP-00036x-Hb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Aug 2018 20:34:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40659) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fmpwZ-00036g-PE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Aug 2018 20:33:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fmpwY-0001T2-QH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Aug 2018 20:33:47 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:37602) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fmpwQ-0001Rb-R0; Mon, 06 Aug 2018 20:33:38 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fmpwQ-0001Xm-Ep; Mon, 06 Aug 2018 20:33:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Mon, 06 Aug 2018 16:55:45 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:228252 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > But apparently, Linux is moving away from the older input libraries > (synaptics for touchpad and libev for general events) and to libinput, > both on X and Wayland. From what I understand, it's deemed to be The > Future. I don't think change has much to do with Linux. Linux is the kernel; none of these libraries is part of Linux. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)