[Xquartz-dev] contact Ben...

[Jonathan Chetwynd]

contact Ben...

Jeremy,

would it be worth asking Ben to contact Owen via irc #GTK+ on  
irc.gnome.org

they seem like a friendly bunch.
which can be rare in this thin atmosphere...

regards


Jonathan Chetwynd

j.chetwynd at btinternet.com
http://www.openicon.org/

+44 (0) 20 7978 1764


from #GTK+ on irc.gnome.org

owen: I don't think that is separable from "fix XInput"
The GTK+ API's are simple and clear, but XInput (as it has  
historically existed) is a broken system that doesn't give suffiicent  
information to hook it up to the GTK+ API
Peter Hutterer has been doing some work on fixing XInput, though it's  
going to take some more attention to the ecosystem to get it really  
right
(that is, you plug in a tablet, it just works everywhere out of the box)

owen 's concern about tablet operation on a proprietary operating  
system? Close to zero
And on OS X, I think Gtk Quartz is more interesting place to spend  
effort

Anyways, my opinion on XQuartz + GTK i that it first needs to be fixed  
thoroughly on Linux, then the XQuartz changes to make it work out of  
the box will be obvious

ebassi: what owen is trying to say is that the native quartz backend  
is far more interesting than using X11 on OSX
  so the effort should go in fixing tablet support there
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