[RFC] protocol: Extend wayland seat with interfaces for sensor inputs.

Stefan Schmidt s.schmidt at samsung.com
Thu Aug 1 01:39:58 PDT 2013


Treating some specific sensors as input devices. In particular
adding support for wl_compass, wl_gyroscope and wl_accelerometer here.

We have requests to start and stop sensor event receiving as well as
events to receive the different axis values for these sensors.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Schmidt <s.schmidt at samsung.com>
---
 protocol/wayland.xml |  123 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 123 insertions(+)

diff --git a/protocol/wayland.xml b/protocol/wayland.xml
index 3cfa953..066a718 100644
--- a/protocol/wayland.xml
+++ b/protocol/wayland.xml
@@ -1251,6 +1251,9 @@
       <entry name="pointer" value="1" summary="The seat has pointer devices"/>
       <entry name="keyboard" value="2" summary="The seat has one or more keyboards"/>
       <entry name="touch" value="4" summary="The seat has touch devices"/>
+      <entry name="compass" value="8" summary="The seat has compass devices"/>
+      <entry name="gyroscope" value="16" summary="The seat has gyroscope devices"/>
+      <entry name="accelerometer" value="32" summary="The seat has accelerometer devices"/>
     </enum>
 
     <event name="capabilities">
@@ -1297,6 +1300,39 @@
 
     <!-- Version 2 of additions -->
 
+    <request name="get_compass" since="2">
+      <description summary="return compass object">
+        The ID provided will be initialized to the wl_compass interface
+	for this seat.
+
+        This request only takes effect if the seat has the compass
+        capability.
+      </description>
+      <arg name="id" type="new_id" interface="wl_compass"/>
+    </request>
+
+    <request name="get_gyroscope" since="2">
+      <description summary="return gyroscope object">
+        The ID provided will be initialized to the wl_gyroscope interface
+	for this seat.
+
+        This request only takes effect if the seat has the gyroscope
+        capability.
+      </description>
+      <arg name="id" type="new_id" interface="wl_gyroscope"/>
+    </request>
+
+    <request name="get_accelerometer" since="2">
+      <description summary="return accelerometer object">
+        The ID provided will be initialized to the wl_accelerometer interface
+	for this seat.
+
+        This request only takes effect if the seat has the accelerometer
+        capability.
+      </description>
+      <arg name="id" type="new_id" interface="wl_accelerometer"/>
+    </request>
+
     <event name="name" since="2">
       <description summary="unique identifier for this seat">
 	In a multiseat configuration this can be used by the client to help
@@ -1605,6 +1641,93 @@
     </event>
   </interface>
 
+  <interface name="wl_compass" version="2">
+    <description summary="compass sensor device">
+      The wl_compass interface represents a compass
+      associated with a seat.
+    </description>
+
+    <request name="start">
+      <description summary="Start receiving events">
+	Sent to enable event receiving for the compass sensor.
+      </description>
+    </request>
+
+    <request name="stop">
+      <description summary="Stop receiving events">
+	Sent to disable event receiving for the compass sensor.
+      </description>
+    </request>
+
+    <event name="motion">
+      <description summary="Motion event coming from the compass sensor">
+	Updated sensor data available from compass
+      </description>
+      <arg name="x" type="fixed" summary="x-axis"/>
+      <arg name="y" type="fixed" summary="y-axis"/>
+      <arg name="z" type="fixed" summary="z-axis"/>
+    </event>
+
+  </interface>
+
+  <interface name="wl_gyroscope" version="2">
+    <description summary="gyroscope sensor device">
+      The wl_gyroscope interface represents a gyroscope
+      associated with a seat.
+    </description>
+
+    <request name="start">
+      <description summary="Start receiving events">
+	Sent to enable event receiving for the gyroscope sensor.
+      </description>
+    </request>
+
+    <request name="stop">
+      <description summary="Stop receiving events">
+	Sent to disable event receiving for the gyroscope sensor.
+      </description>
+    </request>
+
+    <event name="motion">
+      <description summary="Motion event coming from the gyroscope sensor">
+	Updated sensor data available from gyroscope
+      </description>
+      <arg name="x" type="fixed" summary="x-axis"/>
+      <arg name="y" type="fixed" summary="y-axis"/>
+      <arg name="z" type="fixed" summary="z-axis"/>
+    </event>
+
+  </interface>
+
+  <interface name="wl_accelerometer" version="2">
+    <description summary="accelerometer sensor device">
+      The wl_accelerometer interface represents a accelerometer
+      associated with a seat.
+    </description>
+
+    <request name="start">
+      <description summary="Start receiving events">
+	Sent to enable event receiving for the accelerometer sensor.
+      </description>
+    </request>
+
+    <request name="stop">
+      <description summary="Stop receiving events">
+	Sent to disable event receiving for the accelerometer sensor.
+      </description>
+    </request>
+
+    <event name="motion">
+      <description summary="Motion event coming from the accelerometer sensor">
+	Updated sensor data available from accelerometer
+      </description>
+      <arg name="x" type="fixed" summary="x-axis"/>
+      <arg name="y" type="fixed" summary="y-axis"/>
+      <arg name="z" type="fixed" summary="z-axis"/>
+    </event>
+
+  </interface>
+
   <interface name="wl_output" version="2">
     <description summary="compositor output region">
       An output describes part of the compositor geometry.  The
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