RFC: Use libxkbcommon in Xorg

Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org
Sun Oct 31 08:21:55 PDT 2010


On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 18:48:43 +0300, Tiago Vignatti wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 04:26:38AM +0200, ext Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
> > 
> > At this point libxkbcommon only depends on xproto (for keycodes and a few
> > other defines) and kbproto. 
> 
> it seems that "only" here is a lot actually. I mean, I thought the real
> motivation of the library was to get rid of X11 dependency, so one could use
> for instance with Wayland. Otherwise, it seems that we would be just moving
> code around. So, the plan next is to keep digging towards the X11 removal or
> what?
> 
xproto and kbproto are not Xlib.  what's the actual problem you're
trying to fix here?  "keysym definitions are in the same git tree as x11
protocol headers" sounds like something one can live with.

Cheers,
Julien


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