X Input 2.0 Protocol Draft Specification

[phoronix]

Phoronix: X Input 2.0 Protocol Draft Specification

Peter Hutterer, the mastermind behind Multi-Pointer X, has released the draft specification for the X Input 2.0 protocol. Over X Input 1.5, X Input 2 brings support for multiple input master devices and the master/slave device hierarchy being visible to the client. All events in X Input 2 will also be backed by GenericEvents...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=Njk4OQ

[pierluc]

Do you think that Multi-Pointer X will be on Ubuntu 9.10?

[Michael]

Do you think that Multi-Pointer X will be on Ubuntu 9.10?

If X Server 1.7 makes it out by then...

[dscharrer]

What interests me most about XInput 2 is the XRelativeMotionEvent which should finally allow dinput direct mouse (http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6971) in Wine to be fixed properly.