Proper Touch, No headless chicken here! We could organize a developer push but we are realistically constrained to what is possible before Christmas. An early delivery into MeeGo 1.2x is possible for netbooks and tablets with rollout in March-April 2011, if the Intel developer tools are there, as they have been promised. Please think in terms of MeeGo 1.2x for that time frame!
George Ingram Computer Scientist http://www.georgeingram.net/ Winner Coders Challenge Intel AppUp Elements 2010 for "FeelMe" -----Original Message----- From: meego-dev-boun...@meego.com [mailto:meego-dev-boun...@meego.com] On Behalf Of Thiago Macieira Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 3:53 AM To: meego-dev@meego.com Subject: [MeeGo-dev] Touch support in X (was: QtMobility has branched) Em Sexta-feira 15 Outubro 2010, às 10:43:48, Thiago Macieira escreveu: > Em Quarta-feira 06 Outubro 2010, às 10:54:39, Thiago Macieira escreveu: > > So we're not going to update to X.org 1.10? This will seriously > > impact any plans to provide proper touch support. If we're not > > upgrading to X.org 1.10 in MeeGo 1.2, we'll get out of "headless > > chicken" mode for now and plan proper touch support for MeeGo 1.3. > > > > Taking the cue from: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/xorg-de...@lists.x.org/msg12373.html > > I still need a position here: is MeeGo 1.2 going to use X.org 1.10? Due to the lack of reply, given the indications I've heard in private emails and given the above email from the xorg-devel mailing list, I have to conclude that MeeGo 1.2 will not upgrade to X.org 1.10. That means proper touch support will not exist before MeeGo 1.3, about one year from now. That's assuming that X.org 1.10 has the solution, which is unlikely if we're not going to use it, or that MeeGo 1.3 uses X.org 1.11, which will have the solution. If MeeGo 1.3 uses X.org 1.10 and the solution isn't implemented by then, we're looking at 1½ years until we have proper touch support in MeeGo. With that in mind, I recommend MeeGo 1.2 take the following two codebases: 1) mtev input driver for X.org: http://gitorious.org/xorg/xf86-input-mtev/trees/master This driver reads MT events from the /dev/input/* devices and produces a stream of XInput 2.0 events modified to support delivery of multiple touchpoints. 2) branch of Qt to read XInput 2.0 touch events: http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/multitouch-and-gestures This branch contains a major rewrite of all mouse / pointer support in Qt to use XInput 2.0. It matches the touch events delivered by the mtev driver above. It is known to work with some touchscreens as well as normal mice, but extensive testing has not been conducted. Qt developers have not touched this branch for 18 months. Note that this is not the XInput 2.1 solution currently in discussion on X.org, but it is known to work. This can be a stop-gap solution for MeeGo 1.2, until the proper solution is implemented for 1.3 or 1.4. Qt R&D does not want to invest more effort into these solutions known to be temporary. Therefore, we're asking for volunteers for maintaining the above branch. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org Senior Product Manager - Nokia, Qt Development Frameworks PGP/GPG: 0x6EF45358; fingerprint: E067 918B B660 DBD1 105C 966C 33F5 F005 6EF4 5358 _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list MeeGo-dev@meego.com http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
