X Input 2 Support Goes Into GTK+ 3.0

[phoronix]

Phoronix: X Input 2 Support Goes Into GTK+ 3.0

Beyond updates to Clutter, Mutter, GNOME Shell, and various other GNOME applications, there is one very other important change that happened to the GNOME desktop this week. After being around for years, X Input 2 support was finally merged into the GTK+ library for the 3.0 release...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=ODI4OA

[xeros]

Is X Input 2 already in Xorg xserver or it's still on it's roadmap?

[unimatrix]

Does this mean I will be able to bind ANY key combination to anything?

[energyman]

why is phoronix ignoring Qt development?

[droidhacker]

why is phoronix ignoring Qt development?

Probably because qt is boring. The major distros all default to gnome. Most software is GTK. Despite some people being real fans of it, and technical differences aside, qt really doesn't matter.

[droidhacker]

Does this mean I will be able to bind ANY key combination to anything?

No, it means that you can plug four mouses into your computer and they'll all work independently.

[droidhacker]

Is X Input 2 already in Xorg xserver or it's still on it's roadmap?

Your question is answered in the article.

[energyman]

Probably because qt is boring. The major distros all default to gnome. Most software is GTK. Despite some people being real fans of it, and technical differences aside, qt really doesn't matter.

troll fail. Very hard indeed.

[unimatrix]

No, it means that you can plug four mouses into your computer and they'll all work independently.

Any idea when and how that will be made possible?

[BlackStar]

why is phoronix ignoring Qt development?

Why don't you ask that somewhere *other* than in a GTK+ news post? Seriously.