Fwd: Re: Fwd: Draft XI 2 protocol specification

Roderick Colenbrander thunderbird2k at gmx.net
Thu Jan 15 00:07:07 PST 2009


Hi Peter,

Since we need XI2 in Wine to fix some major input issues (relative mouse input) I forwarded your spec draft to our mailinglist and one of our devs has some questions.

Regards,
Roderick Colenbrander

-------- Original-Nachricht --------
Datum: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:54:41 -0700
Von: Vitaliy Margolen <wine-devel at kievinfo.com>
An: Roderick Colenbrander <thunderbird2k at gmx.net>
CC: wine-devel at winehq.org
Betreff: Re: Fwd: Draft XI 2 protocol specification

Roderick Colenbrander wrote:
> Hi Vitaliy,
> 
> Peter Hutterer has submitted a draft specification of Xinput2 to the xorg
> 
mailinglist. As you know it will offer relative mouse movements. He is
asking for feedback. Since I have no experience with Xinput you might want
to review it and see if it works out for Wine.
> 

I'd say I like it so far. Should work really nicely for DInput. And I think
it should work for "RawInput" as well - one more API introduced in XP.
However someone needs to see how well this will work for tablet input?

The next big question - joysticks. If Wine ever decides to use X11 for
joysticks we'll need much more then what's available now in XI 1.x
(force-feedback anyone?) or spec'ed here. The other direction (to the
device) is IMHO needed as well.

Also not sure where all the extra keyboard add-ons belongs in. XI or
something else? Things like extra displays, LEDs - all the cool stuff on
some gaming devices.

Vitaliy.

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