Hello introducing myself, I'm Gursimran singh 4th year undergraduate at Thapar University, Patiala. I'm glad to hear that xorg is participating in GSoC. I had been contributing in ubuntu for about one and half years and trying to learn the internals of the package xserver-xorg-input-synaptics, despite only a few users in ubuntu contributing in this area. I have triaged and upstreamed bugs related to the package and (feels like) know the detailed artchitecture how the input subsystem fits in together with the linux kernel. Unfortunately I wasn't able to add some real code patches being novice (tried got stuck a couple of times) in this field. However now I have better know-how to code compiling and packaging and is all ready to experiment with X. I'm really passionate to learn the internals of X and later I would like to become a part of the awesome community of X developers and I think GSoC will help a lot in this regard.
Currently I would be glad to work on synaptics or some other driver if an idea can be opened from the ToDo.. evdev: the evdev driver currently ignores joysticks altogether. It could be extended to work against such devices and auto-setup itself accordingly. evdev: evdev touchscreen support is still subpar to evtouch. One missing feature is a right-click emulation on long presses. This would be a quite trivial project. synaptics: coasting is a on/off state toggle. should be momentum-based instead. I have full determination to work in X and would be thankful if community could suggest me how should I strengthen my application. I can try add some patches to bugs once the project finalizes. Thanks a lot. Some wiki page that I have written https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingTouchpadDetection https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingTouchpadDetection/evtest https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingTouchpadDetection/xev Blog http://simar-mohar.blogspot.in/ Launchpad Details https://wiki.ubuntu.com/simar https://launchpad.net/~simar Bugs - https://bugs.launchpad.net/~simar Code - https://code.launchpad.net/~simar/+merges -- Warm Regards, Gursimran singh 4th year undergraduate, Department of Computer Science, Thapar university, Patiala.
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