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 ? Regards, Detlev.
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