Development quotes of the week

Here are some examples of long-running bug reports where you can see this dynamic in action. It’s quite sad to observe, because everybody involved is doing what makes perfect sense from their perspective (except for a few people behaving badly), yet the result is a mess.

I hope this illustrates why it’s important to assume that people are acting in good faith.

fwiw, libinput has a setting where it can automatically disable the touchpad for external mice but it's not integrated into GNOME (afaik). It's a bit problematic in that it provides little feedback once set. Ideally you want a OSD to signal your touchpad's disabled now. Otherwise it's hard to guess why nothing works after the bluetooth mouse in the sock drawer randomly decided to connect to your host.

So while the libinput feature is there, I'm not sure I can fully recommend it as a user-friendly solution for GNOME.

PS: do not keep mice in a sock drawer. That's not their natural habitat.