wine users - Oct 2009 - XInput 2 for Wine - now X11R7.5 is at release candidate...

Hello everyone,

I recall, around when XInput 2 was first being discussed as imminent (and, due
to the nature of the X release process, turned out not to be), some initial work
was done on implementing "proper" relative mouse movement using it.

I can't seem to find any record of it after the first implementation was
thrown out to the dev list, however.

Since Xserver 1.7 is now out, and X11R7.5 is at RC1 as of today, it seems an
appropriate time to ask what's happened with this promising course of
development - we can assume that any linux distro due for release in November or
later will include 1.7 (and hence Xinput 2), and it would be lovely if Wine
could finally (on such supported systems) resolve most of the mouse capture
niggles it has using Xinput 1.

There should be a discussion between Wine developers to implement it as soon
as possible! :)
Will this version be included in the next Ubuntu release?

2009/10/18 aoanla <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I recall, around when XInput 2 was first being discussed as imminent (and,
> due to the nature of the X release process, turned out not to be), some
> initial work was done on implementing "proper" relative mouse
movement using
> it.
>
> I can't seem to find any record of it after the first implementation
was
> thrown out to the dev list, however.
>
> Since Xserver 1.7 is now out, and X11R7.5 is at RC1 as of today, it seems
> an appropriate time to ask what's happened with this promising course
of
> development - we can assume that any linux distro due for release in
> November or later will include 1.7 (and hence Xinput 2), and it would be
> lovely if Wine could finally (on such supported systems) resolve most of
the
> mouse capture niggles it has using Xinput 1.
>
>
>
>
>
>
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The xinput2 work focused was a quick implementation to see if the xorg stuff
worked fine for us and if we need more. It also served to explore what needs to
be changed in Wine to support it. Before xinput2 can be merged into Wine a big
part of the input code needs to be rewritten and after that xinput2 can be added
but this is a huge amount of work and might take months. Nobody is actively
working on it, so hopefully it gets finished before Wine 1.2 but I wouldn't
count on it.

Certainly the old code must stay because only a fraction of the users will have
xinput2 and we also need to work on old Xservers and Xservers (e.g. remote X11)
without xinput2. This is also one of the things which complicates the design
because big chunks need to be rewritten, some stuff needs to be moved to
explorer and both the old/new stuff have to work.

Warren Dumortier wrote:
> Stupid comment, but why not making a page to seek developers...
> There are maybe developers not involved in Wine that would like to help
> because they have skills in that component.
> 

You mean like the big Developers link on the home page with the subtitle
"Become a Wine developer" that leads to http://www.winehq.org/devel/ ?

Everyone who submits patches to Wine is a Wine developer and everyone can do
that :)

But i mean making some publicity for developers. Maybe even Windows
developers would be interrested.
A bit a dumb comment, but who knows!

2009/10/19 Thunderbird <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
> Everyone who submits patches to Wine is a Wine developer and everyone can
> do that :)
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