New wayland backend for threaded EGL/GLSL emulator

[Scott Moreau]

On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Jonas Kulla <nyocurio at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wow, nice work!!


Hey, thanks.


> Are you using SDL for joystick input?
>

Yes, it uses SDL for joystick input.


> Something I've been wondering for some time now is wether wayland
> can support native joystick events, as there is an evdev driver for it.
>

Certainly possible.


>
> In SFML for example, if it wasn't for joystick input, the input thread
> could
> just sleep waiting for new events to come in, but it has to continually
> poll
> the joystick state. This could be solved very elegantly I think by just
> having
> a "joystick" or "gaming" protocol extension with native events.
>

Yes, that would require a significant amount of work though I don't see any
reason why it couldn't work.
Currently, weston detects joysticks as mice and the first axis controls the
pointer 1-1. We need a way
to distinguish between device types and handle them accordingly.

- Scott


>
>  - Jonas
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