X Gesture Extension protocol - draft proposal v1

[Kristian Høgsberg]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Chase Douglas
<chase.douglas at canonical.com> wrote:
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>                            The X Gesture Extension
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>                                 Chase Douglas
>                          chase.douglas at canonical.com
>                                Canonical, Ltd.
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> 1. Introduction
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> The X Gesture Extension is a mechanism to provide the following:
> - Interface for X clients to register and receive gesture primitive events
> - Interface for an X client to act as a gesture engine

What's the reasoning behind this architecture?  Could the gesture
recognition just be done in the client, provided we have a good way
for X to communicate multi-touch events?  Splitting it up into a
"gesture engine" and teaching X about gestures seem unecessarily
complex at a first glance.

Kristian