[ubuntu-x] XI2 (was: Re: Karmic status)

[Timo Aaltonen]

On Wed, 27 Jan 2010, Bryce Harrington wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 01:27:56PM +0300, Timo Aaltonen wrote:
>>> xserver 1.7 is looking late.  Partly this was expected at the outset,
>>> but I'd be more comfortable if we had a beta release we could include
>>> for alpha-4.  If we don't, should we be focusing instead on 1.6.x?
>>> I'd love to hear other people's thoughts here.
>>
>> According to Peter the XI2 API is now stable, so there should be
>> .901-releases of libxi, libx11 and inputproto soonish. Don't know how long
>> the server is going to take. Moving API/ABI's are a pain, and the video
>> ABI might change still, so snapshots would mean more work and rebuilds.
>
> Has anyone had a chance to play with XI2?  Thoughts?

Included in lucid, but since neither gtk or qt support it (?) there's
little to play with.


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Timo Aaltonen
Systems Specialist
IT Services, Aalto University - School of Science and Technology