Sorry about the delay. On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 09:07:07AM +0100, Roderick Colenbrander wrote: > Since we need XI2 in Wine to fix some major input issues (relative mouse > input) I forwarded your spec draft to our mailinglist and one of our devs > has some questions.
> I'd say I like it so far. Should work really nicely for DInput. And I think > it should work for "RawInput" as well - one more API introduced in XP. > However someone needs to see how well this will work for tablet input? > > The next big question - joysticks. If Wine ever decides to use X11 for > joysticks we'll need much more then what's available now in XI 1.x > (force-feedback anyone?) or spec'ed here. The other direction (to the > device) is IMHO needed as well. We have feedback to the devices, but I only know it from reading the protocol spec, I've never needed to use it myself. What exactly is lacking that cannot be solved with int/string/etc. feedback? > Also not sure where all the extra keyboard add-ons belongs in. XI or > something else? Things like extra displays, LEDs - all the cool stuff on > some gaming devices. The current consensus is that LEDS are controlled through XKB. For "keyboard add-ons", if they are defined on a per-device basis they may end up as device properties. Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
