On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 03:46:48PM -0800, James Simmons wrote:

> > > 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.

Exactly.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
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