[ANNOUNCE] xf86-input-synaptics 1.2.0

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Thu Oct 8 16:49:12 PDT 2009


xf86-input-synaptics 1.2.0 is now available. This release works with the
recently released X server 1.7.0.  
Only a few minor fixes went in since the snapshot, nothing overly exciting.

1.2.0 brings a few cleanups since the relase of 1.1, most notably the
complete removal of SHM configuration. It's properties only from now on,
which means that you'll need at least server 1.6 for run-time configuration.

We have new properties:
- "Synaptics Capabilities" - a read-only property to get some information
  about the capabilities of the physical touchpad. Most notably - does it
  support multiple fingers.
- "Synaptics Area" - allows to restrict the active area of the touchpad to
  something less than the actual physical area.
- "Synaptics Pad Resolution" - provides input scaling for touchpads with
  different resolutions on the horizontal and the vertical axis.
- "Synaptics Gestures" - Allows clients to enable or disable gestures.
  Currently only for TapAndDrag.

There are still a few bugs open against the driver and even some feature
requests. My apologies to those reporters for not getting them in in time,
although we have effectively three maintainers looking at patches
(Christoph, Henrik, and me), we're all overloaded and I have to admit that
I'm the worst bottleneck right now. If you're interested in helping out with
the driver, please let me know and we'll figure out how we can improve on
the current situation.

Alberto Milone (1):
      Correct the type of the Synaptics Area options in the man page

Christoph Brill (2):
      Add support for reducing the build process output by using shave
      Revert "Add support for reducing the build process output by using shave"

Peter Hutterer (4):
      man: s/SYNTAX/SYNOPSIS/ (#9515)
      Require macros 1.3 for XORG_DEFAULT_OPTIONS
      Require recordproto 1.13 or libXtst 1.1 for record support.
      synaptics 1.2.0

git tag: xf86-input-synaptics-1.2.0

http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/driver/xf86-input-synaptics-1.2.0.tar.bz2
MD5: 2cf0a2b0b3006bcfcd85bb77d966244a  xf86-input-synaptics-1.2.0.tar.bz2
SHA1: bca5433285290f67cca42eb37abfd5292b83c991  xf86-input-synaptics-1.2.0.tar.bz2

http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/driver/xf86-input-synaptics-1.2.0.tar.gz
MD5: a7ea7e58b1cbec86acdacb148d0f41b5  xf86-input-synaptics-1.2.0.tar.gz
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