Re: XInput 2 support (again)

[Stefan Monnier]

Po Lu [2021-11-15 10:54:24] wrote:
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> Can you quantify this "older"?
> Released before X11R7.5.

AFAICT that was 2009.  So, yes, old but not quite as ancient as some of
the other things we try to support.

>>> People also like to turn it off over remote connections because they
>>> think it takes up more bandwidth than Core Input.
>> Do Gtk applications still work in the absence of XInput2 version ≥1.1 ?
> Yes, they will fall back to Core Input.  At least, GTK 3 will.  I don't
> know about GTK 4, which has significant changes here.

So it looks like for the next few years we'll still want to support the
non-XInput2 code.


        Stefan