From: Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: libinput support in Eamcs?
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2018 22:28:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180806212835.GA80326@breton.holly.idiocy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3o9efbl3i.fsf@gnus.org>
On Mon, Aug 06, 2018 at 04:55:45PM +0200, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> But apparently, Linux is moving away from the older input libraries
> (synaptics for touchpad and libev for general events) and to libinput,
> both on X and Wayland. From what I understand, it's deemed to be The
> Future.
>
> (Please correct me if I misunderstand.)
That is my understanding too.
> And this is really low-level, so we'd have to write higher-level
> function to translate this all to sensible events.
This is what really put me off trying to use libinput2 directly. I
thought the best option is to use GTK, which might need to be a native
port to GTK, as Emacs currently ignores GTK’s event handling
completely.
That clearly doesn’t help with other X toolkits, but I believe it
would provide us with a similar set of basic touch events on X,
Wayland, macOS and (I think) Windows.
Although writing a GTK port just for touch events seems a little
excessive.
--
Alan Third
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-06 21:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-06 14:55 libinput support in Eamcs? Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-08-06 15:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-08-06 15:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-08-06 21:28 ` Alan Third [this message]
2018-08-06 22:22 ` Philipp Stephani
2018-08-07 0:33 ` Richard Stallman
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