Re: [Qemu-devel] console muti-head some more design input

[John Baboval <baboval@spineless.org>]

On 11/20/2013 03:12 AM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>    Hi,
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>> I think you are only considering output here, for input we definitely
>> need some idea of screen layout, and this needs to be stored
>> somewhere.
> Oh yea, input.  That needs quite some work for multihead / multiseat.
>
> I think we should *not* try to hack that into the ui.  We should extend
> the input layer instead.

This would be a contrast to how a real system works. IMO, the UI is the 
appropriate place for this sort of thing. A basic UI is going to be 
sending relative events anyway.

I think a "seat" should be a UI construct as well.

> The functions used to notify qemu about mouse + keyboard events should
> get an additional parameter to indicate the source of the event.  I
> think we can use a QemuConsole here.
>
> Then teach the input layer about seats, where a seat is a group of input
> devices (kbd, mouse, tablet) and a group of QemuConsoles.  With x+y for
> each QemuConsole.  The input layer will do the event routing:  Translate
> coordinates, send to the correct device.
>
> I think initially we just can handle all existing QemuConsole and input
> devices implicitly as "seat 0".  Stick x+y into QemuConsole for now, and
> have the input layer get it from there.  At some point in the future we
> might want move this to a QemuSeat when we actually go multiseat.
>
> Bottom line: please do the coordinates math in input.c not sdl2.c so we
> don't run into roadblocks in the future.
>
> cheers,
>    Gerd
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