Dear diary, on Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 01:00:11PM CEST, I got a letter, where Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> told me, that... > > > I think it would be really much more easy to patch gpm to return smooth > > > data than to mess with KD_GRAPHICS, catch all signals, force the admin to > > > use -R and reconfigure all software (and losing all mouse features that > > > gpm doesn't understand). > > > > I'll probably talk with Nico about exposing paralel better designed (not > > struct-based thus hopefully much better extensible) API soon. A pity that your > > mail on gpm mailing list didn't get much interest yet, however that list tends > > to be rather lazy and it frequently takes more than few days to others to > > reply.. > > I read gpm source and I expect that it will be 15-lines patch on gpm, no > need to make new API. I will try it now, as soon as I compile and install > new gpm. If you will change size of the structure, won't you break old programs i.e. playing with the Gpm_Event relying on its sizeof? -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis * ELinks maintainer * IPv6 guy (XS26 co-coordinator) * IRCnet operator * FreeCiv AI hacker . Object orientation is in the mind, not in the compiler. -- Alan Cox . Public PGP key && geekcode && homepage: http://pasky.ji.cz/~pasky/