On 05/17/2012 08:20 AM, Jonas Ådahl wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Chase Douglas > <chase.doug...@canonical.com> wrote: >> On 05/17/2012 07:53 AM, Daniel Stone wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> On 17 May 2012 15:20, Chase Douglas <chase.doug...@canonical.com> wrote: >>>> I know I don't have much (any?) clout in wayland, but I feel strongly >>>> enough about moving this logic to a separate library that I'm going to >>>> NACK this. We need to resolve this problem from the beginning, or else >>>> we will end up in some of the same messes we have in the X server. >>> >>> No, it's a fair shout. Ultimately we definitely want all of this to >>> be in a separate library. I worry that introducing a library now when >>> we don't know what either the consumers really want or the producer >>> can give us would be a massive pain though, especially for things like >>> bisect. I'd be much happier just dropping it in the source tree now, >>> being careful to keep it as independent as possible, and then >>> gradually evolve it to be a separate library that things like X can >>> use. >> >> I would be very sad if we couldn't figure out a pointer acceleration >> library interface at this point. >> >> If you're worried about API/ABI issues, most of the wayland protocol is >> still in flux, as far as I understand. Even still, I don't think it will >> be too hard to get this right the first time. >> >>> This also gets really hairy when touch comes into the mix, so for >>> instance we'd need to deal with the interactions between touch events >>> and tap-to-click etc ... >> >> tap-to-click is a separate issue. It's a trackpad "gesture" feature. >> That should be handled by a separate, client-side library, imo. Right >> now I'm only advocating for a simple library to handle pointer acceleration. >> > > Maybe a simple middle way would be to put it into weston while > enabling it to be compiled as a separate library. It's already fairly > decoupled. It'll have a highly experimental weston specific API that > will brake a lot but it will be possible to experiment with.
I think this would be a great first step. +1. -- Chase _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
