On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 08:24:58AM +0100, Matthieu Herrb wrote:
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 12:06:55PM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:
* sorry, BSDs, Solaris, etc. start using evdev already.
No please. Evdev is not one size fits all all, and the *BSD
developpers don't want to be forced to
let me rephrase this though: by not having evdev you're missing out
on user-space components that rely on it, and those are only going to
get more while maintenance of the non-evdev components will be
reduced.
One of X's strengths used to be its cross-platform support. The MIT
sample server
On 01/30/14 06:36 AM, Mouse wrote:
let me rephrase this though: by not having evdev you're missing out
on user-space components that rely on it, and those are only going to
get more while maintenance of the non-evdev components will be
reduced.
One of X's strengths used to be its
A huge number of platforms have been dropped over the years because
there was no one running them who wanted to work on X to support
them.
And if I were told that to work on X I'd have to emulate some
ill-defined Linuxism - which is sure what that sounded like - I
wouldn't want to work on it
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 12:06:55PM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:
* sorry, BSDs, Solaris, etc. start using evdev already.
No please. Evdev is not one size fits all all, and the *BSD
developpers don't want to be forced to implement an evdev
compatibility layer and pay the price for that extra
