Some of my thoughts on input for wayland

[Chase Douglas]

On 01/24/2011 09:18 PM, Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
> I expect gesture recognition will work much the same way.  The
> compositor gets the input events before anybody else and can decide
> whether it's a global gesture and keep the events to itself or to
> forward them to the application.  There is no window hierarchy, so
> once the compositor decides to send the events to a certain events to
> a surface, that's where they go.  There is no event propagation or
> bubbling going on (except what the client may implement internally in
> its window), there is on need to reject the events or pass them on to
> another client or back to the compositor.

How will things like browser plugins work without a window hierarchy?

Thanks,

-- Chase