[PATCH] Removal of early acceptance and grab_window

Chase Douglas chase.douglas at canonical.com
Wed Feb 1 13:10:52 PST 2012


On 01/27/2012 06:50 AM, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> 
> These two features were still marked with a "FIXME" in the server, both
> unimplemented (early acceptance responded with a BadAccess, the window
> argument was ignored completely).
> Drop them from XI 2.2, they're a nice feature to have but it's unlikely that
> they will get implemented in time and so far the MT implementations do not
> seem to require either feature. Dropping grab_window from libXi's
> XIAllowEvents is a bit of a pain for clients, but since the argument was
> ignored anyway, clients can just remove it and recompile - no logic changes
> required.

We have a disagreement on how the request structure should be handled,
but it's a matter of opinion on what would be more maintainable going
forward. Given Peter is the current maintainer of the input stack, I
defer to his judgement. For the series:

Reviewed-by: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas at canonical.com>


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