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List:       freedesktop-xorg-devel
Subject:    Re: RFC: Use libxkbcommon in Xorg
From:       Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-10-31 17:02:06
Message-ID: AANLkTinKUuDi_Lpqn0=n6ebuiVYArnCNXFF+rQDCJ89w () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 18:48:43 +0300, Tiago Vignatti wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 04:26:38AM +0200, ext Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
>> >
>> > At this point libxkbcommon only depends on xproto (for keycodes and a few
>> > other defines) and kbproto.
>>
>> it seems that "only" here is a lot actually. I mean, I thought the real
>> motivation of the library was to get rid of X11 dependency, so one could use
>> for instance with Wayland. Otherwise, it seems that we would be just moving
>> code around. So, the plan next is to keep digging towards the X11 removal or
>> what?
>>
> xproto and kbproto are not Xlib.  what's the actual problem you're
> trying to fix here?  "keysym definitions are in the same git tree as x11
> protocol headers" sounds like something one can live with.

I think he wants to remove the X from XKB and have it be a generic
keyboard system. But my intention (and I think Daniel's) was just to
get Xlib and any other client side stuff out from under XKB.

--
Dan
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