[Xevie] Re: Invitation to a discussion about an External Event Manager

[Jim Gettys]

I also believe this discussion can and should go on a public
mailing list.

Certainly we've been thinking of this as probably being a rework
of XEvIE, so we can just start using the existing freedesktop mailing
list (which seems to have been created, but never used).

The subscription form can be found at:

http://freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xevie

				- Jim



On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 13:54, Deron Johnson wrote:
> Keith Packard wrote:
> 
> > I think the key idea I would like to see in this extension is that it 
> > respect the window hierarchy so that you could do multi-level redirection 
> > if necessary.  IOW, dispatch events logically to containing windows 
> > (starting with the root), allowing an application to capture all events 
> > passing "through" a specific window and then resend them to a specific 
> > sub-window without respect to the nominal window geometric relationship to 
> > the pixel position of the event.  Does that make any sense?
> 
> Could you explain further what this feature would be used for?
>