Google Summer of Code

[Marco Martin]

On Saturday 26 March 2011, José Expósito wrote:
> Hello Martin,
> 
> > I think your multitouch work would be valuable for complete KDE.
> > 
> > In my opinion it's not something that needs to be in KWin, but might be
> > better as a KDED module available to the complete workspace. That's why
> > I CC-ed the plasma devel mailinglist. For such a project I would
> > recommend to find a mentor knowledged with input devices (I'm not and I
> > don't know who our expert is).
> 
> Thank you very much ;) I'll wait to known the opinion of plasma developers.

to me multitouch support means basically two possible things (just as local vs 
global shortcuts)
some action truggered by a multitouch gesture that is system wide, or the 
application itself managing it to do its own things (like pinch zoom)

for the secons case qt api is pretty much enough to easily use gestures in any 
app.
for the first case some system wide daemon should filter gestures and manage 
the one that it support (if i want for instance have a gesture to minimize a 
window, or whatever)

now, i'm not sure what exactly could be the right place to do it, it looks to 
me that the mouse gestures kded could be expanded?

it's also true that most of those gestures would be pretty window manager 
specific, so could even make sense in kwin..

Cheers,
Marco Martin