Some of my thoughts on input for wayland

[Tiago Vignatti]

(this is going off topic.. oh well)

On 01/25/2011 12:31 AM, ext Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
> The "input_device" interface describes the entire input protocol as it
> is now.  Obviously, there's work to do, right now it's sort of like
> core input + mpx.  But the point is, we can phase this out in favour
> of "input_device2", which can completely replace the "input_device"
> interface.  Then we can keep "input_device" around for a few years
> while we port the world to "input_device2" and then eventually dump
> it.

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 > If X had let us phase out core fonts, core rendering and core
> input as extensions, I think X would have lasted even longer.  It was
> one of the mistakes in X I didn't want to carry over.

True.

Besides it, the main contributors of Xorg are enterprise distributions, 
in which the gross income is generated by costumers who have sortof 
life-time support. And, these costumers have applications relying on old 
toolkits (a la Motif/Xt), running on fairly old machines and they don't 
care about any eye-candy GUI (so no need for hw accelerator mechanisms). 
Therefore an X11 implementation that evolves slowly, steady and which 
supports things from two decades ago is ideal for them. This is todays 
Xorg and its way of development.

I see that letting Wayland protocol more loose (e.g. not defining any 
core interfaces) is the way forward also. On the other hand, for the 
development process, some very precise mechanism for deprecate old 
interfaces has to be defined in the implementation.

           Tiago