[Xevie] Re: Question about synchronous grabs

[Deron Johnson]

Jim Gettys wrote:


>> I don't think we can ignore passive grabs either.


I agree. Support for passive grabs is absolutely required.
I've basically decided to do a surgical extraction of all of the
event pipeline code in dix/events.c and support all features, including
synchronous grabs. (Except I'm not going to initially support cursor
confinement or pointer warping, which I regard as being evil in a GUI,
but I can always add them in later). I plan to validate this
"event-otomy" by using it to construct an external event handling
process and using it to run GNOME. Once I am confident that nothing
is majorly broken I'll gradually convert it over to Java and stuff it
into the LG3D Display Server.