Re: Wine Joysticks, seeking a plan

[Stefan Dösinger]

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On 04/16/15 15:49, Henri Verbeet wrote:
> Arguably the way we talk to joysticks on Linux is just broken. I
> think it really would make much more sense for joysticks to go
> through X11 like every other input device. There may even be some
> multiseat considerations somewhere in there as well.
- From a design point of view yes, but are there any other Linux
applications that do this? The few I have run either talk to /dev/js*
or /dev/input/event*. I'm worried that we end up being the only
application using a poorly tested codepath.

This here makes me doubt that going through the X server is a good
idea:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2015-January/019462.html
(without knowing who or how competent the author is)
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