Re: [Development] Fixing input for eglfs and friends

2012-05-25 Thread Johannes Zellner
Hi, sorry had no network connection yesterday. On Thursday, May 24, 2012 06:51:32 AM Agocs Laszlo.P wrote: > Hi, > > Please do not merge the plug-ins. A monolithic "evdev" monster plug-in is > not desirable and would certainly not classify as "generic" anymore. > > The "static device discovery"

Re: [Development] Fixing input for eglfs and friends

2012-05-25 Thread Girish Ramakrishnan
Hi Jorgen, On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Jørgen Lind wrote: > >> I think that's a valid point :-) They are all inside qtbase because of >> convenience. The build system wasn't and still isn't very friendly >> when it comes to creating separate modules. > > I honestly dont understand this poin

Re: [Development] Fixing input for eglfs and friends

2012-05-24 Thread Jørgen Lind
> I think that's a valid point :-) They are all inside qtbase because of > convenience. The build system wasn't and still isn't very friendly > when it comes to creating separate modules. I honestly dont understand this point. And why does it have to be a submodule. Cant it just be a git repo wi

Re: [Development] Fixing input for eglfs and friends

2012-05-24 Thread Donald Carr
Hey Jorgen, I also like the idea of "default" plugins where eglfs will default to loading support for the keyboard and an input device. I think having some kind of heuristic for this will probably be gross, hacky and harder to fathom than Girish's current approach which is baking it in. There are

Re: [Development] Fixing input for eglfs and friends

2012-05-24 Thread Girish Ramakrishnan
Hi Jorgen/Laszlo, On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 12:26 AM, Jørgen Lind wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 11:54:18PM -0700, ext Girish Ramakrishnan wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 11:33 PM, Jørgen Lind wrote: >> > I think we should focus on keeping eglfs as small as possible, but >> > keeping

Re: [Development] Fixing input for eglfs and friends

2012-05-24 Thread Thiago Macieira
On quarta-feira, 23 de maio de 2012 23.54.18, Girish Ramakrishnan wrote: > Many of the boards come with very specific rootfs/linux. It's hard to > install stuff on them. udev support is either there or not there. That > doesn't mean you cannot plug devices into them, you can. Just that > udev isn't

Re: [Development] Fixing input for eglfs and friends

2012-05-24 Thread Laszlo Agocs
Regarding the input plugins: Once you reach a certain level of complexity (that is, you need tighter integration between the input subsystems and graphics, need device-specific workarounds, need to support special embedded setups, etc.), you will find it easier and more productive to simply fo

Re: [Development] Fixing input for eglfs and friends

2012-05-24 Thread Jørgen Lind
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 11:54:18PM -0700, ext Girish Ramakrishnan wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 11:33 PM, Jørgen Lind wrote: > > I think we should focus on keeping eglfs as small as possible, but > > keeping the readability of the code, so that the entry level for "extending" > > eglfs

Re: [Development] Fixing input for eglfs and friends

2012-05-23 Thread Girish Ramakrishnan
Hi, On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 11:33 PM, Jørgen Lind wrote: > I think we should focus on keeping eglfs as small as possible, but > keeping the readability of the code, so that the entry level for "extending" > eglfs will be low. > I think this is the first thing that needs to be discussed :-) We h

Re: [Development] Fixing input for eglfs and friends

2012-05-23 Thread Jørgen Lind
Hi > The initial issue with our current input handling for platforms like eglfs, > which do not handle input on its own, is, that we have input plugins for > mouse/keyboard/touch (evdev), which are seperate from each other. > So one needs to specify "-plugin evdevkeyboard" on the commandline in o

Re: [Development] Fixing input for eglfs and friends

2012-05-23 Thread laszlo.p.agocs
velopment-bounces+laszlo.p.agocs=nokia@qt-project.org [development-bounces+laszlo.p.agocs=nokia@qt-project.org] on behalf of Zellner Johannes (Nokia-DXM/SiliconValley) Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 11:36 PM To: development@qt-project.org Subject: [Development] Fixing input for eglfs and friends

[Development] Fixing input for eglfs and friends

2012-05-23 Thread Johannes Zellner
Hi, as we are working on better support of embedded devices in Qt, we also are tapping into the input handling. The initial issue with our current input handling for platforms like eglfs, which do not handle input on its own, is, that we have input plugins for mouse/keyboard/touch (evdev), whi