On 04/04/2012 12:34 PM, Henri Verbeet wrote:
On 4 April 2012 20:21, Eryk Wieliczko<ewde...@gmail.com> wrote:
I've been thinking about joining GSoC as a student this year. As an
idea I propose Raw Input, and I seek your advise. Is this topic good,
what are possible catches, etc.
I think that it might be possible to finally do a decent
implementation, that would (besides mouse and keyboard) also support
joysticks and possibly some other input devices - tablets and multiple
mice and keyboards.
What do you think about this topic?
My impression of Raw Input is that it's the kind of thing that's
fairly hard even for someone already familiar with all the areas of
Wine involved. That probably makes it unsuitable for GSoC, although I
suppose there are no hard rules for what is or isn't suitable.
It's not really that hard. The hard part is getting design accepted by AJ.
Raw Input has to heavily interact with wine server. And any changes there
are hard to get right and eventually accepted.
So, if you have an idea of how you want to do it. And this idea is good
enough to go in - that's fine. But be ready to completely redesign & re-code
some pieces if design won't be accepted.
Vitaliy.
