[RFC PATCH inputproto] specs: Add new SwitchClass

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Mon May 23 02:38:54 PDT 2011


On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:27:48PM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> I had this at some point for XI 2.0 but kicked it out due to time reasons.
> Not sure I'll be able to implement the server support by the 1.11 merge
> window so this may have to wait, but comments would be appreciated.
> 
> It's fairly straightforward and essentially a copy of the button handling.
> One thing missing that I'm not convinced we need yet is a passive grab
> type on SwithOn. Skipping that makes switch handling significantly easier.

It does seem like it'd be useful to have, unless all switches should be
handled by one daemon.  But having the X switch support mainly exist to
feed GSettings or somesuch seems pretty unpleasant.

Cheers,
Daniel


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