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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: really wierd proposal
From:       Manuel Amador <rudd-o () amautacorp ! com>
Date:       2005-05-10 23:39:29
Message-ID: 1115768369.18577.17.camel () master ! amauta
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I understand that it is POSSIBLE to configure multiple pointer devices
and keyboards, (independent ones) in one X server.  For each class of
devices, either one of th devices is the core one, and others are
numbered from 1 up, or one is core and at least one of the secondary
devices can be told to SendCoreEvents.  This is how I configured my
wireless mouse to work from my bed, while using my higher-res
intellimouse explorer while at my desktop.

Now, pointers don't have different colors.  AFAIK, there is only ONE
pointer (or this may be because i configured the wireless mouse to
SendCoreEvents).

El jue, 07-04-2005 a las 19:31 +0100, David Laban escribió:
> On Thursday 07 April 2005 18:30, Luke-Jr wrote:
> > On Thursday 07 April 2005 15:58, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > > On Thursday 07 April 2005 06:28, David Laban wrote:
> > > > "groupware to the extreme"
> > > > "energy saving"
> > > > "cost-effective"
> > >
> > > this is already possible today, and some companies are even shipping
> > > products around this. it requires some small and rather trivial kernel
> > > patches for the usb input devices, but you get 4 (or more) individual
> > > desktops with their own screen/mouse/keyboard all hanging off the same
> > > computer.
> >
> > However, that's not what David suggested.
> > David's idea (which I'm surprised hasn't been given consideration before)
> > would be to have multiple users (mice/keyboards) in the *same* session.
> > Active titlebar, mouse, and keyboard cursors would be colour-codec
> > per-user.
> >
> > Just imagine what you can do with games if this kind of support is added...
> > ;)
> 
> I think (as Aaron seems to be suggesting) that if it happened, it would need 
> to be a separate project drawing from (and adding to) the source code of the 
> kernel project, Xorg, Qt and KDE (maybe a university comp. sci. team 
> development project if anyone feels like taking it up?). I only really put it 
> here in case anyone saw it and thought "that sounds cool" I'm not a coder 
> (yet) so I don't really know how it would work but if anyone feels like 
> bouncing ideas off the wall with me then my email is there.
> 
> I kinda feel guilty for using the usability mailing list for this so sorry to 
> those who aren't impressed. Please forgive me! (I'll be good I promise)
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Manuel Amador <rudd-o@amautacorp.com>
Amauta
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