[Xorg] Input device hotplug

[Ely Levy]

Hey,
just few points from when I looked ar xinput
1)It would be nice to have user configurable options
2)Mouse wheel should be mapped to zaxis and not buttons 4,5
3)I think there is some functionality missing like accelated moving
  or tapping.
4)allowing more than one core device (mouse/keyboard) to be independed
from each other, It doesn't make much sense when using on one display
but if you want for example one keyboard per display for 2 people
working..
5)Personaly I think that xinput should handle keyboard as well,
  (the basic hardware level not the xkb one), I don't know if it's related
  to xinput but probebly some changes in they keysym handling might be
  nice.



Ely Levy
System group
Hebrew University
Jerusalem Israel



On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, [UTF-8] Kristian Høgsberg wrote:

> [ Joe, I'm cc'ing the list, I assume you meant to send to the list too ]
>
> Joe Krahn wrote:
> > Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
> > ...
> >
> >> One thing I'ld like to discuss is where to add the add and remove
> >> device interface -- I dont think XFree86-Misc is the right place.  My
> >> first approach to this was that the new functionality should be an
> >> Xorg private interface, but I'm thinking that maybe it would be better
> >> if it was a standardized extension to XInput.  In that case, is the
> >> proposed interface too Xorg specific?
> >
> >
> > OK... the big problem is a total lack of XINPUT design docs. (Or at
> > least that's how XFree86 was designed. I hope X.org is more interested
> > in fixing this.)
>
> Are you talking about the protocol design or the server internal
> (implementation) design? Or both?
>