<div>I have set myself a rather ambitious project to start this summer, and would like to ask some questions before I get started.</div><div>The aim is to write a compositor/window manager that will work well with multitouch input (a friend of mine is taking care of the hardware setup, the plan is optical recognition of touch points). I very much like the approach Wayland is taking, so I'd like your input on whether it would be possible to build this on Wayland.</div>
<div><br></div><div>First of all, I don't have experience coding anything of this type (most work I have done has been plugins for other apps, but I'm reasonably confident with C++), so if I'm in way over my head please let me know now.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The first question is if it is possible to use multitouch input as a main input. The best bet for processing would be CCV (<a href="http://nuicode.com/">http://nuicode.com/</a>) which sends TUIO messages. There are some old discussions regarding TUIO (on X via evdev), but nothing recent. Does anybody know if Wayland is capable of handling such input? If not, would it be possible to extend it to do so, or is this something that must be done at kernel level (probably not something I'd want to mess with...)?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Secondly, what is the status of using Wayland with Clutter? Again, there isn't much recent news... Clutter seems very promising as a library to build on, so I'd like to use it if possible.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Finally, if anybody is interested in joining me on this please do get in touch. Any help is appreciated!</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Kai</div>