Messages in this thread | | | From | (Mike "Ford" Ditto) | Date | Fri, 26 Jun 98 20:03:33 -0700 | Subject | Re: uniform input device packets? |
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It's time to move this thread to the linux-input mailing list, away from linux-kernel.
> What is I was implementing a multihead solution with 15 heads in > once machine or speed, maybe on a multiplayer game? What about if each > person needs two mice for my control scheme?
Presumably there won't be one system-wide event stream containing the merged events of all users of the multi-user system. Each "terminal" (set of display, keyboard, etc.) should have one stream of input events. Each one should have its "main" pointer device look like "pointer device #0" or whatever to the apps that run on it.
You don't need to support 100 input sources per head. Eight or whatever was proposed will be fine, since 95% of systems will use two sources, 4.99% will use three sources, and the other .01% are beyond the reasonable scope of such a unification attempt. Yes, of course those are fabricated statistics, just like 83.5% of all statistics are. :-)
-=] Ford [=-
"The number of Unix installations (In Real Life: Mike Ditto) has grown to 10, with more expected." ford@omnicron.com - The Unix Programmer's Manual, http://www.omnicron.com/~ford/ford.html 2nd Edition, June, 1972.
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