[Wayland-bugs] [Bug 85532] New: Provide device identification mechanism

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85532

            Bug ID: 85532
           Summary: Provide device identification mechanism
           Product: Wayland
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: Other
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: medium
         Component: libinput
          Assignee: wayland-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: peter.hutterer at who-t.net
                CC: bugzilla at hadess.net

users of libinput need some sort of mechanism to tell whether a device is a
mouse, touchpad, trackball, etc., in addition to the current capability sets.

the need for this is primarily triggered by the GUI config tools to categorise
device configuration (e.g. GNOME has a mouse/touchpad configuration tool split)

main question here is whether a device can have a single tag only, or whether
we allow for multiple tags for mixed devices (which would allow defining tags a
lot narrower). If multiple tags are allowed, then that could also be used to
tag a device as e.g. intern/external

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