Some of my thoughts on input for wayland

[Bill Spitzak]

Chase Douglas wrote:

>> Er, grabs do have that ability: see the ReplayPointer and ReplayKeyboard
>> arguments to XAllowEvents.

That does not quite get what I want. Say for instance that the grabbing 
program drags windows around. I want it to drag the window no matter 
what shift keys are held down, as long as the program does not handle 
that combination. But the only way to tell that is to ask the 
application first.

XAllowEvents just allows a grabbing program to more-finely specify it's 
grab. But I do think if there are passive grabs, they could be much 
coarser in their selection (perhaps you could only grab entire devices, 
or maybe *everything*) and "allow" would be the only method to "not 
grab" events.

But this is identical to what I want programs to be able to do, so now 
there is no difference between a grabber and a normal application. There 
just need to be some rules in Wayland saying which one is first. 
Hopefully those rules can be simple.