Connectionstring for joystick

[Bastien Nocera]

On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 13:24 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 17:55 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > No need to go as low as the distro level. X11 has support for joysticks
> > (or at least it has some support), and it would need input hotplug to be
> > usable without reconfiguration.
> 
> Some day, in 10,000 years and probably in a galaxy far far away, X.org
> will stop using e.g. /dev/input/mice and the desktop session tell the X
> server what devices to use. 

Point taken. But I thought it showed up as a different device, like
keyboard and mouse being (wrongly) separated.

> (Stuff like this is required for user configurable stuff (think the
> Input dialogs on Mac OS X) like disabling the touchpoint in and around
> when you use your keyboard. Stuff like that. The whole idea of exposing
> input devices in HAL is to make it easy to write desktop session daemon
> for handling this).

Completely agreed here as well. But I guess that once X11 has a proper
input hotplug, people will unbreak the joystick support... Hopefully.

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Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net>