On 04/04/2012 12:34 PM, Henri Verbeet wrote:
On 4 April 2012 20:21, Eryk Wieliczkoewdevel@gmail.com wrote:
I've been thinking about joining GSoC as a student this year. As an idea I propose Raw Input, and I seek your advise. Is this topic good, what are possible catches, etc. I think that it might be possible to finally do a decent implementation, that would (besides mouse and keyboard) also support joysticks and possibly some other input devices - tablets and multiple mice and keyboards. What do you think about this topic?
My impression of Raw Input is that it's the kind of thing that's fairly hard even for someone already familiar with all the areas of Wine involved. That probably makes it unsuitable for GSoC, although I suppose there are no hard rules for what is or isn't suitable.
It's not really that hard. The hard part is getting design accepted by AJ. Raw Input has to heavily interact with wine server. And any changes there are hard to get right and eventually accepted.
So, if you have an idea of how you want to do it. And this idea is good enough to go in - that's fine. But be ready to completely redesign & re-code some pieces if design won't be accepted.
Vitaliy.