On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 09:33:34PM -0400, Chase Douglas wrote: > On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 10:36 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: > > Seriously, I appreciate your eagerness but at the moment your proposals may > > sound good on paper but the devil's in the detail. You really need to read > > up on the core protocol spec, the XI and XI2 protocol specs and especially > > the event processing and grab handling in the server. If after that you > > haven't committed yourself to a mental institute, feel free to draft up some > > more plans but when I mentioned this issue is tricky in earlier emails, I > > wasn't joking. Right now, I don't think your proposals have the required > > depth. > > Yes, I understand. > > My goal is to try to become well versed in all this as fast as possible. > I've been trying to piece together bits and pieces from various places > (internal docs in git repos, random pages on x.org, reading code as fast > as I can), but it can be rather difficult. You can't found books on X > design like you can on the kernel :). Thus, figuring out how the entire > input system of X works as quickly as possible is a challenge. > > So my "proposals" are more like me slinging things at a wall and seeing > what sticks. I knew going in that nothing I was going to suggest was > going to be implementable as I originally thought them up, but my hope > is that I can find a nugget of potential to grow upon. > > I also don't want to go off, read the source, and develop an idea, > spending quite a bit of time doing so, and come back and realize the > world (X, gtk, qt) has moved on without me and any ideas I had can't be > implemented any more.
The solution to this is to stay involved with the ongoing development while you're learning the details. Cheers, Peter > Mostly I am just eager to participate. I hope it's not too much bother, > and I am going to be spending as much time as I can reading the source > and any docs I can find. > _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
