Wine Joysticks, seeking a plan

[Henri Verbeet]

On 16 April 2015 at 15:38, Stefan Dösinger <stefandoesinger at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 04/16/15 15:11, Aric Stewart wrote:
>> Ok I sat down with Ken (the benefits of being in the same office)
>> and after a lengthy discussion I have come to terms with how it may
>> not be the most ideal plan to put the joystick driver into the
>> graphics driver. However I am still of the strong opinion that we
>> need some sort of better joystick architecture and I know Alexandre
>> is also of the like mindset.
> One more thing that makes merging this into the graphics driver a bad
> idea: Assume we have a Wayland graphics driver one day. It would run
> on Linux, just like winex11. The way we talk to joysticks would be the
> same though.
>
Arguably the way we talk to joysticks on Linux is just broken. I think
it really would make much more sense for joysticks to go through X11
like every other input device. There may even be some multiseat
considerations somewhere in there as well.