GSoC project idea: input support for XCB
Peter Harris
pharris at opentext.com
Thu Mar 25 07:43:46 PDT 2010
On 2010-03-24 19:28, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 03:11:38PM +0100, Arnaud Fontaine wrote:
>> I have already updated SummerOfCodeIdeas wiki page about that but as
>> it's coming a bit late in the GSoC schedule, I'm also posting this here.
>
> Out of interest - how far did Mariusz get last year? I think his GSoC
> project was similar.
Mariusz got about as far as specifying most of XKB in xcb/proto.
Unfortunately, XKB is unlike most of the rest of the extensions, and
required additional syntax to be able to specify it. libxcb doesn't know
how to generate code from the new XSD yet, because he ran out of time.
There's probably about a whole GSoC project getting that working right
there. Much of that time would probably be spent on the xcb list hashing
out a decent C API, and only a smaller amount of time writing code to
generate that API from the XML.
On top of that, Xlib does a fair amount of heavy lifting. An xcb/util
library to do most of the same functions would be quite welcome. There's
probably a 2nd GSoC project there.
There does exist a patch to let Wireshark parse the new syntax, if
that's any consolation:
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4481
Peter Harris
>> So, here is a project idea for the GSoC:
>>
>> One of the main area preventing XCB wide adoption over Xlib is input
>> support. There are some information there[0] (incomplete ATM but it's a
>> work in progress) about the current status. This SoC project involves
>> porting Xlib keyboard functions to XCB and working on related X
>> extensions (such as XKB, XKB2...).
>>
>> You don't really have to know XCB, so this project would definitely be a
>> really good starting point if you are interested in low-level X
>> programming and work on something that will be widely used (XCB is
>> supposed to be the future of X client library).
>>
>> If a student is interested in writing a proposal for this subject, don't
>> hesitate to send an email to xcb at lists.freedesktop.org.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Arnaud Fontaine
>>
>> [0] http://xcb.freedesktop.org/XCBToDoKeyboard
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