[PATCH weston v2 2/2] evdev: Improve touchpad support and add motion filters

[Chase Douglas]

On 05/17/2012 07:53 AM, Daniel Stone wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 17 May 2012 15:20, Chase Douglas <chase.douglas at canonical.com> wrote:
>> I know I don't have much (any?) clout in wayland, but I feel strongly
>> enough about moving this logic to a separate library that I'm going to
>> NACK this. We need to resolve this problem from the beginning, or else
>> we will end up in some of the same messes we have in the X server.
> 
> No, it's a fair shout.  Ultimately we definitely want all of this to
> be in a separate library.  I worry that introducing a library now when
> we don't know what either the consumers really want or the producer
> can give us would be a massive pain though, especially for things like
> bisect.  I'd be much happier just dropping it in the source tree now,
> being careful to keep it as independent as possible, and then
> gradually evolve it to be a separate library that things like X can
> use.

I would be very sad if we couldn't figure out a pointer acceleration
library interface at this point.

If you're worried about API/ABI issues, most of the wayland protocol is
still in flux, as far as I understand. Even still, I don't think it will
be too hard to get this right the first time.

> This also gets really hairy when touch comes into the mix, so for
> instance we'd need to deal with the interactions between touch events
> and tap-to-click etc ...

tap-to-click is a separate issue. It's a trackpad "gesture" feature.
That should be handled by a separate, client-side library, imo. Right
now I'm only advocating for a simple library to handle pointer acceleration.

-- Chase