Multi{pointer,touch} & Userspace

[Florian Echtler]

> > In fact, all four daemons just expect classes derived from C++ iostream,
> > so in the single-machine scenario, you could just put all of them into
> > one multithreaded application and have them communicate internally.
> Heh.  I don't think we'd ever accept a C++ library dependency for the X
> server.
I wouldn't see such a library as part of the Xserver. I rather think
that the Xserver should just supply pointer (and maybe later blob)
events. The gesture recognizer itself would fit better into the
freedesktop library set.

> After some quick investigation, I note that libxml2 is even more bloated
> than libxml1 was, weighing in at nearly 1.2 megabytes.  expat is much
> lighter weighing in at 130K or so.  We'll see....
There's also tinyxml [1], but that relies heavily on libstdc++.

Yours, Florian

[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/tinyxml
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