EVoC - Project ideas & hardware requirements

[Roman Gilg]

Hi Stefan,

I worked on the Xwayland multi-buffer project in last year's GSoC. Well,
there is still some stuff to do and I hope to finish it till the release of
the next Xserver. You can check out my last patch-set at:
https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2017-August/054422.html

* I can't say much to portable hardware.

* You find the X.Org codebase here: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg and
the XServer in particular here: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/
If you're interested in Xwayland, this code is here:
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/hw/xwayland. The best would be to
clone atleast the xserver repo and take a look at it on your local file
system. If you want to read some introduction to the XServer code base, you
can read the articles I wrote while I was working on my GSoC project here:
http://www.subdiff.de/archive/tags#xwayland This is primarily about
Xwayland, but also at least outlines crucial parts of the overall design of
the Xserver.

* I'm also can't say much regarding your last item. In general though best
is to ask on IRC #wayland or #xorg-devel. There are often devs around who
will help you. In particular regarding the pressure-only bluetooth project
you can also send Peter Hutterer an email or query him on IRC, who is the
maintainer of libinput.

Cheers
Roman

On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 7:57 AM, Stefan Dvoretskii <
stefan.dvorezky at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello dear Wayland developers,
>
> I am a student thinking about participating in EVoC. I've browsed the
> Ideas concerning Wayland on the official site (https://www.x.org/wiki/
> SummerOfCodeIdeas/) and found the Pressure-only Bluetooth styli support
> and Multi-Buffer for XWayland ideas especially interesting. However, there
> are some questions:
>
> * Hardware requirements - I doubt I would have the proper portable
> hardware. Is it possible to run it virtually or could there be some cheaper
> solutions for that (i.e., buying/renting the proper hardware for the
> duration of the project)? What could you recommend?
>
> * The codebase of xOrg is pretty huge, so it's pretty hard to find
> relevant code. Where should I look at first considering this
> projects/ideas?
>
> * Are there some resources apart from this and ToDo list where one could
> find more things worthy doing an EVoC project about them?
>
> Thanks for your help in advance,
>
> Kind regards,
> Stefan Dvoretskii.
>
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