On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 05:55:58PM +0200, Sascha Hlusiak wrote: > I'm asking because of the joystick driver that I maintain and that at > the moment claims to be XI_MOUSE as well. Should I rather change it to > "JOYSTICK", define a new atom for that or make it even configurable? I > still don't know about the impact but I think it might be that some > applications might refuse to work with devices they don't know about > (gimp?).
Gimp with a joystick is probably not something for the light-hearted :) I'd say XI_MOUSE is wrong. JOYSTICK would be good, alternatively you could also think about having JOYSTICK, GAMEPAD, and whatnot, although as the XI_XYZ atoms show too many aren't that great either. Applications that expect XI_MOUSE from a joystick and break can be fixed with few LOC. It does leaves the question - should we merge JOYSTICK (etc.) into XI.h as defaults, or do you think it is better to provide them as part of the joystick driver? Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
