On 19/10/10 6:47 PM, "ext Thiago Macieira" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Em Terça-feira 19 Outubro 2010, às 17:31:10, [email protected] escreveu: >> Hi, >> >> For MeeGo 1.2 the X.org 1.10 release is too late. We did not upgrade kernel >> and X in the beginning of the 1.2 cycle because we wanted to keep the >> codeline stable and working. We would not upgrade X in the end of the >> cycle either. That should be pretty clear common sense. >> >> The only solution that I can see is to go with what Thiago proposed below. >> That is a solution which works now in Harmattan. The maintainer of the >> code is open as stated below. > > Thanks for replying Sakari. > > I'll check what we can do to reduce the maintenance burden of the patch. > > This is a bit unfortunate for us since we do need to focus on XInput 2.1 > anyway: other teams will not stop because of MeeGo. If they forge ahead with > the development, we need to be a part of it to ensure our needs are met. Yes - I agree. It is unfortunate but many times the upstream schedules don't match with distro's. > One final question: if the X.org input driver is written with XI2.1 and works > on top of X.org 1.9, can we still add it to MeeGo 1.2? >From my POV yes but it is really a question to the X team if they are willing to support and maintain that setup. And I am not the only one who needs to say it is okay. > Note that I have no idea if this driver is possible on top of X.org 1.9. But > before I ask anyone to commit resources to this backport, it's important to > know if it can be accepted. That is, if it comes at the correct time, with the > usual quality reviews. I just need to know that this option isn't outright > rejected. Please ask. -sakari > > -- > Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org > Senior Product Manager - Nokia, Qt Development Frameworks > PGP/GPG: 0x6EF45358; fingerprint: > E067 918B B660 DBD1 105C 966C 33F5 F005 6EF4 5358 _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
