On Sun, 2010-12-19 at 17:40 +0100, Ulrich von Zadow wrote: > On Dec 1, 2010, at 3:34 PM, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > > > On 30/11/10 11:39, Ulrich von Zadow wrote: > >> I just wanted to re-post this link to some games that are already > >> designed for multitouch > >> use: https://www.libavg.de/wiki/index.php/Sample_Multitouch_Applications. > >> Maybe one or more make sense as demos? We can put some effort here > >> into making this happen :-). > > > > That would rock! > > Sorry for taking so long to reply to what is obviously a great opportunity - > it took a bit to get things sorted on our side. I now have commitments from > the people responsible for five of the six games to update the code so it > works with curent Ubuntu, and they're all very excited ;-). The games have > been written with a fixed resolution in mind, one of them has > non-redistributable media, etc., and we'll fix these things. > > I also have a load of questions - maybe we can get some support for the stuff > below. Also, I have no idea how Ubuntu development is organized, so please > tell me what steps we need to take to get this to work :-). > > 1) Timeframe: > When do things have to be finished? The current plan is to get everything to > run on our side in January, with packaging left after that. Any ideas for a > more concrete plan?
Here is a good place to start: <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NattyReleaseSchedule>. > 2) libavg changes: > - I'll be working to get libavg, the library these games are based on, to run > with whatever multitouch API will be available in 11.04. We have a working > driver for libmtdev - will that suffice? Other options seem to be the kernel > slot API and XInput. What's the state of XInput multitouch? > - The current libavg Ubuntu package is orphaned. I'll make a release in > January - can someone assist us in getting the Ubuntu package updated? I > don't think this is a lot of work, but no one here has any experience in that > area. This is not a problem. Post on the multi-touch-dev list or in #ubuntu-touch on freenode and someone will be glad to help out with this. > 3) Tests: > We'll have some multitouch hardware here, but not enough to really make sure > nothing breaks. Is there a way to get things tested on a diverse set of > hardware? Once we have packages, we have a large community of people with all kinds of divers hardware waiting to test nifty stuff out. We can push packages up to a staging server (PPA) and spread the word through various channels. First, we need to get things packaged and start the process of getting it uploaded to Ubuntu. -- Stephen M. Webb <[email protected]> Canonical Ltd. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~multi-touch-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~multi-touch-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
