pscroll (high-resolution scrolling) update

[Peter Hutterer]

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 12:56:45PM +0200, Max Schwarz wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> Am Monday, 26. September 2011, 16:11:05 schrieb Peter Hutterer:
> > sorry, I completely forgot about that.
> No problem at all. Your approach is certainly more flexible than mine ever was.
> I like the idea of doing both-way emulation in the server, that removes the 
> need to create both type of events in the drivers.
> 
> > Any comment on the smooth scrolling approach is appreciated, we're not final
> > yet on the protocol.
> I'm playing around with your code (your next-all branch) here, and it looks 
> very good. I sent in a patch about the double/fraction conversion yesterday, 
> maybe you've seen it. Without it the valuators always report integer values.

yes, I've seen it. unfortunately I'm a bit swamped with some other stuff atm
so my patch review lag is high.

> Additionally I got a compile error about redefinitions of "XF86OptionPtr" on 
> your branch, I had to guard the typedefs with preprocessor guards. A small 
> patch is here, though it's certainly better to look at why redefinitions occur:
> https://gist.github.com/d0828f2e99b36ec01340
> If you need additional information on that, mail me.

yes, I found this yesterday as well but more by accident. gcc 4.6 allows
duplicate typedefs and doesn't warn about them unless -pedantic is given. So
the code that compiles fine on F15 blew up on RHEL6. I've got a patch that
moves the XF86OptionRec out into a separate header that will hit the list
shortly.

> I'm currently working on getting smooth scrolling working with wheel emulation 
> in xf86-input-evdev, so I can test the 'smooth' part of the whole thing. I 
> will probably send you a patch today if you are interested. I want to avoid 
> working on the same parts you are working on though, that wouldn't be very 
> productive.

There is already an smooth-scrolling branch on
people.freedesktop.org/~whot/xf86-input-evdev, you're best off just using
that. It doesn't work with wheel emulation yet though and I don't really
have any plans (or time) to work on it. So feel free to add to this.

Cheers,
  Peter

> I think I will focus on the client side of this after wheel emulation. Your 
> patchset covers the X.org side quite nicely ;-)
> My old Qt4 patch should be easy to adopt, and I have got an idea about how to 
> proceed with GTK as well.
> 
> Best regards,
>   Max