RFC: Use libxkbcommon in Xorg

[Tiago Vignatti]

On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 10:02:06AM -0700, ext Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 18:48:43 +0300, Tiago Vignatti wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 04:26:38AM +0200, ext Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
> >> >
> >> > At this point libxkbcommon only depends on xproto (for keycodes and a few
> >> > other defines) and kbproto.
> >>
> >> it seems that "only" here is a lot actually. I mean, I thought the real
> >> motivation of the library was to get rid of X11 dependency, so one could use
> >> for instance with Wayland. Otherwise, it seems that we would be just moving
> >> code around. So, the plan next is to keep digging towards the X11 removal or
> >> what?
> >>
> > xproto and kbproto are not Xlib.  what's the actual problem you're
> > trying to fix here?  "keysym definitions are in the same git tree as x11
> > protocol headers" sounds like something one can live with.
> 
> I think he wants to remove the X from XKB and have it be a generic
> keyboard system. 

yeah, this is what I meant.

> But my intention (and I think Daniel's) was just to
> get Xlib and any other client side stuff out from under XKB.

Okay, thanks Dan. I'm still wants to hear Kristian's intention though.

             Tiago