> > BTW one of the ideas for handling topology I like is the idea of having
> > different groups for different desktops for multi-desktop systems. You
> > could have desktop0, desktop1 etc. This way you don't end up playing
> > a mp3 on someone else sound card. You can have multiple sound cards as
> > well and you can assign each one to a particular group. Same with
> > joysticks etc. 
> 
> Yes, this sounds good. It's an userspace thing, though. Our job now is
> just to allow it. :)

Correct. That is a SysAdmins job.

> > Only for things that make sense. For example the force feedback state
> > might be nice to have per process. Hm, does XInput handle states per
> > client? 
> 
> I'm not sure about FF. I can't imagine sharing a FF device by more than
> one client process. What if the forces are contradictory?

We have to change the hardware state as we go from one client to another. 
Say we have two different games going each with their own state. Actually
thinking about it now it is a dumb idea. We don't know what window would
have focus so it would be better if the X input library would handle this.


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