[PATCH] Policy: handle `input.touchpad' explicitly

[Michael Witten]

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 12:02 AM, Peter Hutterer
<peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:
> What I am not sure about however is the non-linux part, assigning the mouse
> driver to the touchpad. It's been a while since I had to deal with the
> driver but I doubt that it handles the touchpad well.

It does seem reasonable that non-Linux systems rely on
hardware-specific X11 drivers (as in `synaptics'), so that the `mouse'
line would be unnecessary (if not incorrect).

However, I've been doing some reading (skimming), and it appears that,
say, a synaptics touchpad emulates a standard mouse by default, and
this:

    http://wiki.freebsd.org/SynapticsTouchpad

suggests that the X11 driver be `mouse'.

Therefore, perhaps it's not such a bad idea to set `mouse' as the
default X11 driver on non-Linux systems.

Sincerely,
Michael Witten