[PATCH weston 0/5] Touchpad support

[Tiago Vignatti]

On 05/10/2012 07:45 PM, Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 23:31 +0200, Jonas Ådahl wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> This series of changes introduces better support for touchpads when using
>> evdev for input handling. Some of the ideas and algorithms used comes from
>> the xserver and xf86-input-synaptics repositories.
>
> This brings up something that I've been wondering: what (if anything) is
> the long-term plan for input in Weston - and Wayland compositors in
> general?
>
> Is Weston going to essentially fold in all the interesting bits from all
> the input DDXs to the core (and require this to be duplicated in all
> other compositors), or should these conceptually be modules, eventually
> crystallising as an input-module ABI compositors could share?
>
> I think I'd like the latter to happen, but what are others thinking
> about this (if anything ☺)?

yeah, there's nothing that prevents us (well.. copyright might be 
something) to have one single consolidated module for input that all 
compositors could dlopen it. At the moment we're not sharing yet because 
it simply doesn't have much, but I'd say once it grows up and some nice 
features get added there, then clutter, qt, efl, etc will want to 
benefit from it.

Tiago