[RFC PATCH inputproto] specs: Add new SwitchClass

[Peter Hutterer]

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 10:38:54AM +0100, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:27:48PM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> > I had this at some point for XI 2.0 but kicked it out due to time reasons.
> > Not sure I'll be able to implement the server support by the 1.11 merge
> > window so this may have to wait, but comments would be appreciated.
> > 
> > It's fairly straightforward and essentially a copy of the button handling.
> > One thing missing that I'm not convinced we need yet is a passive grab
> > type on SwithOn. Skipping that makes switch handling significantly easier.
> 
> It does seem like it'd be useful to have, unless all switches should be
> handled by one daemon.  But having the X switch support mainly exist to
> feed GSettings or somesuch seems pretty unpleasant.

I guess there's usage outside of gnome, but yes, it'll most likely feed into
one daemon. Still, is that our choice? should we just drop the events
because someone else already processes them directly from the kernel?

Cheers,
  Peter