Discussion about two new X extension proposals

[Adam Jackson]

On Wednesday 11 May 2005 07:41, Buola Buola wrote:
> > Basically, the problem is that Wine has a lot of different connections to
> > the X server (from what I remember, one per Win32 thread). Now, if one
> > wants to restrict the mouse to a window (for games for example), one
> > really needs to do this from the thread that actually does the input
> > (otherwise all mouse events will only go to a thread that may completely
> > ignore them).
>
> If this is only needed for a specific project, maybe it would be
> better to use synthetic mouse events and don't add rarely-used
> extensions to the server (I have seen some other thread around here
> looking for such things to be removed), but if more people think it
> might be useful it looks ok.

I think there's an important distinction to make here.  Composite, for 
example, will probably only ever be used by one application per server, and 
that's okay, that is in fact the whole point.  Likewise if Wine needs an 
extension to make its emulation better, that's fine too.

The important part is that the extension gets _used_.  It's not about app 
count per extension, it's about the number of running servers where that 
extension is active.

- ajax
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