[Xorg] Input device hotplug

[Ely Levy]

On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, [UTF-8] Kristian Høgsberg wrote:

> Ely Levy wrote:
> > 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
>
> Well, it really should be a vertical wheel event, I think. Mapping it to
> z-axis is also "wrong".

You mean a special event for it?
what's the diffrent between that and zaxis?
or do you want to add zaxis and then be able to map it to diffrent events
which one of them can be the vertical wheel?
I think there are already mouse/joystick which support horizontal wheel
btw I don't see the day where people would use joystick for x that far
away:)

> > 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..
>
> Sure, this is cool stuff, but I'm not sure how much work it would be, or
> if it would be worthwhile.
>
> > 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.
>
> In what way? You can change the core keyboard with XInput, what else
> should it do?

What xserver does with the keyboard now, you need it to add more
flexibility to what keyboard does what, (like above going to diffrent
display), or to change the keysym to unicode (if it's not in xkb?)

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>
> Kristian
>