[Qt5-feedback] Some questions about Qt-5 input

[Thiago Macieira]

On Saturday, 14 de May de 2011 10:55:05 Rick Stockton wrote:
> About me: I am delighted to see that a mailing list has been created for
> 'qt5-feedback', because my hours are not very "compatible" with EU
> people on IRC. I would be delighted to listen, with care, on any other
> mailing lists and 2-way blogs concerning input devices. (If Gitorious
> provides ML-like communications, I have not seen where they are.) I
> apologize in advance for awkward words, I'm not a good communicator in
> writing.

Hello Rick, welcome to the mailing list. You've come to the right place.

> I have the impression, from my 'barely-qualified-to-comment' view, that
> qt *must* target migration to XI 2.1 as an underlying X11 input stack.
> (X11->Wayland would seem to be later, and an underlying platform option
> and neither prerequisite nor related to updating the Qt User/Developer
> API.) On this list so far, we have lots of good discussion about the
> migration to OpenGL, and other issues ...

The latest information I have is that XInput 2.1 will not land into the 
upcoming August release of X.org. At the soonest, it will be ready for the 
January/2012 release.

In my *opinion*, that's too late. I think we'll have migrated all of our 
attention to Wayland by then and we'll be seriously pushing Wayland to 
everyone under the sun. X11 support (via XCB) will not be the attention, so no 
one will be writing an XI2.1 support.

> Which leads to the "fresh food" of my post: XI 2.1-based input, both for
> touch and primitive (keyboard, pointer) devices.

We've been driving that. We've been even sponsoring some people to work on 
that. But if it isn't released in August, I doubt it will ever make a 
difference to the world.

-- 
Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org
  Senior Product Manager - Nokia, Qt Development Frameworks
      PGP/GPG: 0x6EF45358; fingerprint:
      E067 918B B660 DBD1 105C  966C 33F5 F005 6EF4 5358
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 190 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part.
Url : http://lists.qt.nokia.com/pipermail/qt5-feedback/attachments/20110515/708cd88f/attachment.bin