On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 11:04 PM, Mattias Andrée <maand...@kth.se> wrote: > On Tue, 2 Aug 2016 22:54:43 +0200 > Silvan Jegen <s.je...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 10:16:06PM +0200, FRIGN wrote: >> > On Tue, 2 Aug 2016 22:08:08 +0200 >> > Silvan Jegen <s.je...@gmail.com> wrote: > [...] >> The Wayland protocol deals with input as well so as long >> as the clients speak it, they are golden. libinput is >> supposed to make input handling uniform on all Wayland >> compositors and can also be used on X11. I am not sure >> whether Joysticks/gamepads are handled in it though. > > They are. Side-note: libinput's documentation is horrible. > (It is far from along in this aspect in the category of > libraries for graphical environments (and audio).)
haha, that's probably the reason I wasn't sure. I was trying to find info about handling joysticks/gamepads in libinput's documentation but couldn't find anything. > I'm not quite sure that the display server should be > responsible for joysticks &c. It feels like something > individual applications that use them should access > directly via for example libinput. It seems to me that's what they do by using cross-platform game dev libraries like SDL[0] or SFML[1]. I have to assume that they would completely bypass the Wayland compositor that way. >> > And even clients have to do their own >> > font-antialiasing. Sounds like a lot of fun! Please >> > stop repeating the propaganda spread on the web, >> > Wayland is not DoA without reason, and there is also a >> > reason why nobody uses it nowadays other than to play >> > around with it. It's a >> >> The rumors of its death are greatly exaggerated... >> Sailfish OS has been using Wayland from the start and > > Keep in mind that Sailfish OS is not a desktop OS, > it requirements are limited. They are definitely different but I am not sure they are limited. I have wanted to play around with Sailfish OS for a long time but the "UX" library bits are all proprietary. Sucks. [0] https://www.libsdl.org/ [1] http://www.sfml-dev.org/
