Wayland Relative Pointer API Progress

[Steven Newbury]

On Sun, 2015-04-19 at 15:29 +0900, x414e54 wrote:
> 
> 
> The way todo this seems to be for the compositor and client to 
> negotiate an event type they both can understand such as
> libinput_event or hid events and then a way to request a revokable 
> fd to the evdev directly so it can control LEDS and force feedback 
> etc. This allows for applications and compositors to grow separately 
> of the wayland protocol so it does not need updating every time 
> someone invents some new mouse device which needs 128bit integers 
> instead of doubles, has a z axis, thumbstick or tiny projector built 
> in, etc.
> 

There's also the point that nothing stops games or sdl-like layers 
from using libinput to interpret the evdev stream, there's no need to 
keep re-implementing device handlers for each client, that way new 
devices supported by Wayland are automaticaly supported.
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