On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 08:01 -0600, Duncan McGreggor wrote: > On 10/09/2010 02:25 AM, Henrik Rydberg wrote: > >> So right at the end, here's one question after all: I'm considering to > >> build a quick hack for Firefox to support multitouch in Ubuntu. This is > >> pretty straightforward using XI2, however, what I didn't quite get is > >> whether XI2 will currently deliver _multi-pointer_ events for > >> _multi-touch_ input. What would be the preferred way here? > > I believe what you would like to look at is the drafts of XI2.1. > Florian, in case you don't follow the xorg-devel mail list > (http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg), that is the place > where all of this is being discussed in great detail. Daniel Stone is > already making great progress, and Chase will be jumping in soon to help > out as well, now that Maverick is released. > Best-case scenario is that a beta of XInput 2.1 will be available within > 6 months or so. Do note that is very optimistic :-) But hey, I'm just > that kind of guy. Besides, it's Daniel and Chase working on it... I > think miracles aren't too much to expect :-) Duncan, thanks for your information. I'm on xorg-devel, although I haven't really followed the low-level protocol discussion closely.
> We are planning, at the very least, to explore FF gesture support in > Natty, and possibly work on some gesture implementation code for FF if > the exploration goes well. We're going to be a little light on the MT > team this cycle, so if you (or others in the community) would like to > assist in getting gestures for apps into Ubuntu for the new cycle, > let's stay coordinated. Your assistance could really accelerate > gesture support. By gesture support in this context, you mean things like multi-finger scrolling, pinch-zoom and so on? Also highly interesting, however, this is a longer-term perspective. For the moment, I'm just focussing on getting a quick hack to enable multitouch-related development in Firefox - i.e., the MozTouch* events. See also the discussion here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=599001 In fact, this is nicely complementary: MozTouch* events means low-level support for apps inside Firefox, while the higher-level stuff (for Firefox itself) is likely almost separate from that. I think that for the very first approach, it's even sufficient to just use regular multipointer input, that's probably the easiest to emulate anyway. Florian _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~multi-touch-dev Post to : multi-touch-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~multi-touch-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
