The first three changes are improvements to the build system. The fourth is a simple .gitignore update. The fifth is the addition of uTouch-Evemu device recording playback support.
Unfortunately, the X.org server does not have a suitable mechanism for generating test input events for all events. The XTest extension relies on a static pointer and keyboard combination, does not propagate events through the normal event path in the server, and only supports X core and XInput 1.x events. I wanted to create a new input module that would instantiate new devices on demand and send events using the xf86XInput API, but the input device architecture of the server makes this impossible without a new input module API. However, we can get around all this on Linux by using the uinput evdev subsystem. Any physical device can be recorded and played back as a virtual device using uinput. uTouch-Evemu is a thin wrapper around uinput that handles recording to and playing back from files. We use this for utouch-frame, utouch-grail, and utouch-geis for integration testing. Currently, each has its own Evemu testing wrapper, but this will help simplify things. You can find more information on evemu here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Multitouch/Testing/uTouchEvEmu. Note that uTouch-Evemu is GPLv3 and cannot be relicensed. Support is being added optionally, and if you don't specify --with-evemu or --without-evemu it should automatically pick it up if it's already installed. Until we have better X.org input test frameworks, I believe this is a reasonable first step for testing. -- Chase _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
