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by shatteredgate 1644 days ago
>If somebody else does the work for him he'll still reject it.

I would like to see this statement where he said he would reject it, I searched and couldn't find any statements to that effect. If it was rejected for some technical reasons then a way to proceed would be to address those reasons and then make a proposal from there.

>I think I have better things to do with my time than try to bring this guy around to my way of thinking. When I said "somebody should tell him" I was being facetious; that different people have different size fingers should have been obvious to him from the start, so he's clearly a lost cause.

I don't think you are operating in good faith here. It seems a bit ridiculous to suggest the person who maintained the very synaptics driver you're using doesn't know that finger sizes can vary. Again, if you want to change minds, the best way to do that would be to make a proposal that will actually work and offer to help shoulder the maintenance burden. That goes a lot farther towards convincing people toward your way of thinking than anything else, if you haven't done that I don't think you can honestly say you've made a complete effort. At least that is my view on how these things go when somebody says they're overwhelmed and they need help. This is pretty much exactly what happened with the recent touchpad changes, somebody else raised some money and offered to take up a lot of the work, and that's why we're commenting on this article :)

>Well hypothetical or historical bugs don't concern me. Synaptics is working for me and always has. And I'm certainly not the only one.

Sure, but for some others it hasn't worked, and for the maintainer the historical bugs always concern them. If you intend to work on this and contribute in a meaningful way, you can't ignore those. A good way to start contributing might actually be to go and look at some of those historical bugs so you don't cause a regression.

>It's a common misconception that the synaptics driver is only for synaptics touchpads.

I am aware of this, the scope of libinput is still much larger than the scope of that driver. That was what my point was.

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> I would like to see this statement where he said he would reject it, I searched and couldn't find any statements to that effect.

It follows from his reasoning that allowing the user to configure the driver to their personal preference would make his job harder because it increases the number of possible configurations. And also from him rejecting such a proposal already.

Can you please share the email or issue where the proposal was made and where it was rejected? I still can't find it. I'd like to continue this conversation and discuss what can be done about it, but we can't discuss this much further without that because I don't really know what you're talking about. I will even look at the proposal and tell you what can be improved about it so maybe it can be made again in a better way. If the reason it was rejected is it because it made his job harder, a way to solve that would be to offer to contribute so you can make his job easier and take some of the maintenance load off him.