On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 01:20:45PM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: > Yeah, that makes sense. But why only allow touch events to be interpreted as > gesture events? Opera I think was the first browser to come out with mouse > gestures and I used to love it. There is a use-case for other gestures.
Similarly, if your hardware allows for it, you want to be able to distinguish between touches of a stylus and of a (set of) fingers. You don't want to do the same things with them. > I think my point may have been ambiguous. What I wanted to say is: I'm for X > not having _anything_ at all to do with the GE. X forwards the events to the > client, the client then may or may not pass it to the GE (e.g. over dbus). X > just sends the raw events, contextual interpretation of these events is done > purely client-side. Are you sure you want to use dbus for that? It would make a lot more sense, especially to handle causality, to go through synthetic X events from a trusted manager, which could be integrated in the window manager or be external like for multilingual support. OG. _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
