On Saturday 11 February 2012 11:56:49 Thiago Macieira wrote: > On sábado, 11 de fevereiro de 2012 11.35.53, Robert Voinea wrote: > > 1. What is the current state of multitouch in Qt/X11? > > Different patches, no official implementation because future X11 plans were > abandoned. The XInput 2.0 support that MeeGo and Mer have is a non-standard > patch that was once submitted to the X.org guys as a proposal for having MT > work. After a bit of time, it became clear that the protocol was inadequate > so they started working on 2.1. I was hoping to find something.. "official"... but I see there are just different implementations... I'll have to see which one matches my requirements.
> It took too long. By the time they had integrated XInput 2.1 into the > protocol, all interest on furthering X11 had gone away. Therefore, Qt has no > plans of ever supporting XInput 2, any version thereof > > By that, read: none of the current Qt developers and companies backing them. > If someone else comes along and wants to do that, it's another story. Ok. > > 2. Has anyone tested something similar?... Qt + Multitouch? on Linux? > > It works with either the patches or with other systems than X. I'm told the > Wayland support is good. Well... X is not mandatory... as long as I can provide dual monitor setup and multi-pointer/multitouch. I'll look into wayland... > > 3. Is there a solution to my problem?... > > Patching either Qt, or X, or both. I was trying to use official packages... Thank you for clearing this for me. -- Robert Voinea IT Specialist +4 0740 467 262 Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive. (Elbert Hubbard) _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
