Re: RENDER question

2003-08-31 Thread James H. Cloos Jr.
Mark == Mark Vojkovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mark I'm getting the suspicion that aliased fonts are getting Mark substituted for antialiased fonts in some of these benchmarks Mark people are posting. The problem is that x11perf asks for: charter:antialias=true:rgba=0:pixelsize=10

Re: XInput: The device type in XListInputDevices comes up again...

2003-08-31 Thread Egbert Eich
Rafa³ Rzepecki writes: On Thursday 28 of August 2003 17:59, Egbert Eich wrote: Sure. What we should probably do now is to get in touch with all interested parties to get their input. We must make sure we don't jump too short again. A generalized API for passing messages to and from

Re: XInput: The device type in XListInputDevices comes up again...

2003-08-31 Thread Egbert Eich
Claus Matthiesen writes: Actually, I'm really getting into the idea that the device can sort of tell the application how to interpret its data. I'll elaborate later in the mail... OK. You may want to 'bind' one tablet to one application and the other one to another appication.

Re: XInput: The device type in XListInputDevices comes up again...

2003-08-31 Thread Egbert Eich
Bryan W. Headley writes: Egbert Eich wrote: Claus Matthiesen writes: Let's just forget about expanding the _XDeviceInfo struct for a minute and just concentrate on the -type field. Because as regards legacy software: Does anybody use the -type field? I don't want to

Re: New device handling in X (was: XInput: The device type inXListInputDevices comes up again...)

2003-08-31 Thread Egbert Eich
Claus Matthiesen writes: This is a summation of the discussion between the est. Bryan W. Headley, the est. Egbert Eich and myself so far, along with a few new ideas... OK. Most people seem to think we need a new way to do device handling of what is currently called extended devices in

Re: XInput: The device type in XListInputDevices comes up again...

2003-08-31 Thread Bryan W. Headley
Egbert Eich wrote: Claus Matthiesen writes: I may have been imprecise. You can register a pen that hasn't been seen before by bringing it close to the tablet so that the tablet detects it. You cannot remove a pen once it is moved out of the proximity of the tablet. Only if the tablet itself is

Re: XInput: The device type in XListInputDevices comes up again...

2003-08-31 Thread Bryan W. Headley
Egbert Eich wrote: Bryan W. Headley writes: Egbert Eich wrote: Claus Matthiesen writes: Let's just forget about expanding the _XDeviceInfo struct for a minute and just concentrate on the -type field. Because as regards legacy software: Does anybody use the -type field? I

Re: XInput: The device type in XListInputDevices comes up again...

2003-08-31 Thread Bryan W. Headley
Egbert Eich wrote: Few drivers do such things now, but using weird tricks (vide XLedFeedback in citron or shared memory in synaptics). Yes, many of those 'tricks' may actually introduce security holes. You bet they do! But I also agree that a user should be able to ask his stylus it's

Help on creating a Window Manager

2003-08-31 Thread Peter Poulsen
hi I'm playing around with xlib, and is trying to make a window manager (just because I can ;-)). But the problem is that I need a little more information. Is there some good resources anybody know of? Also, is there a mailing list that is more suited for questions related to the use of xlib (as

Re: Help on creating a Window Manager

2003-08-31 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 08:59:39PM +0200, Peter Poulsen wrote: I'm playing around with xlib, and is trying to make a window manager (just because I can ;-)). But the problem is that I need a little more information. Is there some good resources anybody know of? Also, is there a mailing list

Re: XInput: The device type in XListInputDevices comes up again...

2003-08-31 Thread Bryan W. Headley
Mike A. Harris wrote: On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Egbert Eich wrote: On Thursday 28 of August 2003 17:59, Egbert Eich wrote: Sure. What we should probably do now is to get in touch with all interested parties to get their input. We must make sure we don't jump too short again. A generalized API for

Re: XInput: The device type in XListInputDevices comes up again...

2003-08-31 Thread Mike A. Harris
In the very early days of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sven Luther and I discussed something like this. Eventually this discussion faded out in the heat of these days Doesn't the following CVS commits implement such an API? No, but it is the beginning of one. Right now, you cannot specify the