On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 02:14:02AM +0200, Detlev Casanova wrote: > On Wednesday 01 April 2009 01:46:43 you wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 01:24:55AM +0200, Detlev Casanova wrote: > > > About the multitouch GSoC project, I was wondering about some things : > > > * would the project be about writing a new driver for multitouch > > > touchpad, for multitouch tablets and also multitouch tables (working with > > > a video camera) ? > > > > such a project should look at providing multitouch independent of hardware > > support. so writing a driver is probably included to test the code, but how > > the actual hardware works (video camera or resistive or ...) doesn't > > matter. > > Yes, that's what I thought. > > > > * is there already an API for this ? I mean, has it already been thought > > > on how it should be designed ? XInput seems to have ways to do that > > > (events can contain data and multiple information) > > > > no, there is no API. that's the tricky bit. > > Mmmh, that's not what I thought, that's what prevented me writing a proposal > as I didn't really know how to put that together. > > > > * I now I'm a bit late but is there a mentor available for that project > > > and would he/she mind talking about the project ? > > > > I've got a proposal for MT support by Ashish Kumar Rai in front of me and I > > guess we'll beat it into shape until it's realizable. I don't know if GSoC > > supports collaborative projects, but that might be worth investigating if > > you want to work on this. > > Unfortunately, no. > Only one student per project but different projects can be related which > would > make student work together. > Such a "parallel" project could be writing some drivers or add a MT API in > libraries like Qt or GTK+. > > > > Also, there are some howto's and other pages about XInput on the x.org > > > wiki but I never see anything about XI2, so, are those for XI1 or XI2 ? > > > > There are no howtos on XI2 yet because it's still in motion. > > About XI1, I suppose it will be dropped once XI2 is finished and implemented. > So, MT will be for XI2, right ?
XI1 support won't be dropped anytime soon, but there won't be any 1.x protocol additions anymore. Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ xorg-devel mailing list xorg-devel@lists.x.org http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
