Input shaping

[Roland Mainz]

Paul Anderson wrote:
> > In this thread:
> >
> >       http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/xorg/2005-January/005962.html
> >
> > Keith describes and extension to the Shape extension allowing windows
> > to have an "input shape" in addition to the exisiting clip and
> > bounding shapes.
> >
> > The patch attached to that message was committed to Keith's xserver
> > tree, but not
> > to the xorg tree. At
> >
> >    http://www.daimi.au.dk/~sandmann/input-shape.patch
> >
> > there is a port of his patch to the xorg tree. The patch is also
> > attached to this message.
> >
> > If this is considered a good idea, I will update the protocol and
> > library documentation
> > for the shape protocol.
> >
> >
> > I originally posted about this to the xorg list, and Roland pointed out
> > that xorg-arch
> > is really the right list to discuss this since it is an API extension.
> > He also pointed out that
> > the Xnest and Xdmx may need to be updated to be in sync with this change.
> >
> 
> Hi Soeren,
> 
> Thanks for bringing this to the list.
> 
> I've been working on putting together some possible
> rough guidelines that we can use to evaluate changes
> like this.  I'm not quite finished with that yet,
> but it includes some of the ideas that Roland
> mentioned, such as covering the relevant documentation
> and man pages, updating other components that may
> be affected by the change.  Some of the other things
> would include watching out for possible ABI changes,
> etc.  I'll circulate that to the list after I've
> made a few more modifications.

BTW: Who wrote the SHAPE extension originally ? IMO the original authors
should have a look and comment whether they like/dislike the idea,
too...

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Bye,
Roland

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