I am unsure if this is the proper way to submit feedback… A feedback field directly in KDE might be a good idea. Now to the point
A bit of backstory:
When I first started using linux my PS5 controller touchpad would control the mouse and I had to turn that off because it would interfere with games that listened for touchpad input and would get both PS5 touchpad and mouse input at the same time. I fixed this with an LLM telling me to set a udev rule.
I try to update weekly, I use cachyos. I updated yesterday and today wanted to play a game and had a similar issue to above except the analog sticks would send mouse input , dpad would send arrow keys, start would open the start menu etc. Making the game unplayable!
I spend hours with LLMs and various people on discord trying to find out what was wrong. Eventually someone told me there is a KDE setting. That was the issue.
Honestly I’m quite mad. I would have never guessed KDE of all things was the issue, I’ve had many issues with steam input, bluetooth and permissions in the past causing issues with controllers so that was the only place I was looking.
I don’t see a reason for this to be enabled by default, at the VERY LEAST there should be some indication that this is a setting when connecting the controller since I was using this controller before the update that caused it.
I don’t see any other posts about this being annoying/an issue, so maybe I’m the only one who didn’t instantly check kde settings when their game was acting all wacky.
I would expect a notification upon connecting a controller, or an info screen on updates where things like this are added, or a prompt when connecting a controller asking if I want this setting… just SOMETHING to know it exists.
TLDR: as a windows refugee & linux noob, “Allow using as pointer and keyboard” as a default option to controllers being added out of the blue was an awful experience.
