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List:       kde-panel-devel
Subject:    Re: detecting tablet mode
From:       Martin_Flöser <mgraesslin () kde ! org>
Date:       2018-01-05 5:23:20
Message-ID: 968FC629-2E49-4122-B4AD-DB72E3EB32C5 () kde ! org
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I want to provide a dbus service in KWin to export the state. Apps cannot use libinput directly, one needs root for that.

Cheers
Martin

Am 4. Januar 2018 23:22:43 MEZ schrieb Marco Martin <notmart@gmail.com>:
>Hi all,
>one thing i wanted to look into, is to detect when a trasformable
>laptop goes 
>in tablet mode from applications, so that plasmashell and kirigami apps
>can 
>adapt themselves and do things(tm)
>KWin does that (on wayland) already, and i see it uses libinput for
>that, like 
>i seem to evince from this recent commit (and the logic when to show
>the on 
>screen keyboard)
>https://cgit.kde.org/kwin.git/commit/?
>id=ac2f41c86d3b5b13ba3655e6c2f17f59a4cb7f01
>
>would a normal application use libinput too or is something reserved to
>the 
>compositor?
>what would be the right way(tm) there? a dbus signal from KWin?
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