Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: David Leverton <levertond@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Chromium bundled code
Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 19:27:15
Message-Id: 4FA42D46.3020903@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Chromium bundled code by Luca Barbato
1 Luca Barbato wrote:
2 > On 03/05/12 16:18, Mike Frysinger wrote:
3 >> you need to think bigger. Chromium supports joystick inputs (which come and
4 >> go) for playing games in the browser, so udev makes sense.
5 >
6 > So is it using libudev to get that information? I guess would be
7 > possible to patch it out, probably dbus would cover that base as well.
8 >
9 > (As soon I have some time I might dabble with a dbus integration for mdev)
10
11 If it really is just for joysticks etc it might be worth seeing if it
12 can be made to use XInput instead. Maybe upstream had a specific reason
13 not do it that way in the first place, but in general, X apps really
14 shouldn't be touching the input devices directly.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Chromium bundled code Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>