PSA: Plasma Wayland on laptop could still be a pain to use
I thought it would be great to spread awareness about this issue, hence I'm sharing it with you here.
In X11 there is a nice feature called "Turn off touchpad while mouse is plugged in" - it's a lifesaver when you have a laptop with big touchpad; me and lots of people with this issue accidentally hit it all the time while typing.
However in Wayland this setting is missing. After some digging people found out that this is not an issue with the libinput driver itself (used for touchpads on Wayland), as it is supporting this feature for a while now; rather it's an issue with the settings app itself, simply not implementing this feature while using Wayland.
Hope this will get attention from the community, as the recognition from the dev's side is minimal.
That's just one specific issue. It doesn't mean that the whole plasma wayland session is a pain. Been using it for more than a year now.
I was actually really confused, the title and post seemed so disconnected
I do agree, and I've never said that. All I'm saying is that Plasma Wayland on laptops is for many people pain to use (and it looks like many agree with me here too).
I do believe that this should be resolved as Plasma 6 is shifting towards Wayland-first approach, and this would annoy most laptop users.
Never been an issue for me; didn't even know that the setting was missing.
It could be a pain, yes, but not a showstopper.
What a nice and civilized way to say that title is misleading. Changing it rn. Thank you sir!
That's why Lemmy >> Reddit
Yeah. There's actual discussion instead of people repeating the same unfunny jokes to 'fit in' and gain 'karma.'
Hmm, I've never noticed this. Hope it gets added back.
Well, even when using X11 I preferred manually toggling my touchpad, but usually my mouse stays plugged for more than a few days so even then it doesn't bother me that much to just toggle it once a week maybe. Not to invalidate the problem, it's just how my experience is with wayland currently.
Can't you just use the disable while typing setting?
I've checked and not only for me this setting does not seem to work on Wayland. It is briefly mentioned in the linked bug report.
It works for me on Wayland
It works for me on wayland. I'm running KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.7.
It does work, and it's pretty annoying when you discover it's on, by playing HTML games.
@backhdlp @JokaJukka don´t ever use macos. it just works 😀
My issue with wayland on my laptop is, ironically, scaling.
I need to turn scaling up to 125% to make things a decent size. On wayland, apparently the setting I use only affects some things and not others. I don't really feel like figuring out or configuring multiple scaling options when it works just fine for me on X.