From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Daniel P. Berrange" Subject: Re: RFC: drop frontend support for relative pointer Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 12:32:21 +0100 Message-ID: <20091008113221.GF17867@redhat.com> References: <87vdirw2d8.fsf@pike.pond.sub.org> <20091007200124.GD2270@redhat.com> Reply-To: "Daniel P. Berrange" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Stefano Stabellini Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" , Markus Armbruster List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 12:25:23PM +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > That's good to know - stubdom was one area I was concerned about. To the > > best of my knowledge the only backend that ever sent relative mouse events > > was the old PVFB we had in Fedora 6 which was the original code before > > the eventual merge into official xen-devel trees. So official repos have > > always defaulted to absolute mode. Hopefully no one out there has gone > > and re-implemented the PVFB backend in any other fork of Xen and dropped > > ABS mode or made REL the default ??? > > > > IMHO if ABS mode is able to work correctly, then there's absolutely no > > benefit in having a REL mode at all, so its best deleted / removed. > > I guess keeping around unused code doesn't make much sense but I was just > being cautious, given that for example XCI is currently using relative > coordinates so they are not dead just yet. Doh, that was exactly the kind of issue I was afraid of. If there is a current host OS that uses relative mode, then we can't get rid of it in the frontend. So if XCI only does relative mode, that pretty much puts a stop to Markus' plan Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|