Thiago, Laszlo Thank you both for your quick replies.
I was trying to use only official releases... but I see now that this is out of the question. I'll give it a try with Ubuntu 11.10 and see where that goes. Thank you! On Saturday 11 February 2012 11:16:28 laszlo.p.ag...@nokia.com wrote: > Upgrading to a newer Ubuntu version (and using the Qt shipped with it) might > help in Robert's case though because as far as I understand Ubuntu ships Qt > 4.7.x with the experimental XI2.1 touch patches applied. > > In Qt 5 there are two platforms that have touch support currently: wayland, > and xcb on Harmattan (the latter is again some unofficial XI2.1 stuff). > Others can use the evdevtouch generic plug-in, but that opens and reads > from the input device directly via evdev so it is more suitable for > embedded platforms (e.g. eglfs, or X-less setups like kms) > > Official XInput multi-touch support is coming in XI2.2 (X.org 1.12). > Supporting this in xcb would certainly be nice (I'm planning to take a look > at it at some point) but it is indeed not high priority now. > > 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. > > 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. > > 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. > > > 3. Is there a solution to my problem?... > > Patching either Qt, or X, or both. > -- 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
