Fwd: Re: Fwd: Draft XI 2 protocol specification

[Daniel Stone]

Hi,

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:34:14PM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 09:07:07AM +0100, Roderick Colenbrander wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> We have feedback to the devices, but I only know it from reading the protocol
> spec, I've never needed to use it myself. What exactly is lacking that cannot
> be solved with int/string/etc. feedback?

I assume force feedback.

> > 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.
> 
> The current consensus is that LEDS are controlled through XKB. For "keyboard
> add-ons", if they are defined on a per-device basis they may end up as device
> properties.

Displays are string feedbacks, and yeah, we can already control LEDs
perfectly well through XKB.  Just need to make a way to have a map
consisting only of LEDs, really.

Cheers,
Daniel
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