multi-touch-dev team mailing list archive

["Stephen M. Webb" <stephen.webb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2010-12-19 at 17:40 +0100, Ulrich von Zadow wrote:
> On Dec 1, 2010, at 3:34 PM, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> 
> > On 30/11/10 11:39, Ulrich von Zadow wrote:
> >> I just wanted to re-post this link to some games that are already
> >> designed for multitouch
> >> use: https://www.libavg.de/wiki/index.php/Sample_Multitouch_Applications.
> >> Maybe one or more make sense as demos? We can put some effort here
> >> into making this happen :-).
> > 
> > That would rock!
> 
> Sorry for taking so long to reply to what is obviously a great opportunity - it took a bit to get things sorted on our side. I now have commitments from the people responsible for five of the six games to update the code so it works with curent Ubuntu, and they're all very excited ;-). The games have been written with a fixed resolution in mind, one of them has non-redistributable media, etc., and we'll fix these things.
> 
> I also have a load of questions - maybe we can get some support for the stuff below. Also, I have no idea how Ubuntu development is organized, so please tell me what steps we need to take to get this to work :-).
> 
> 1) Timeframe:
> When do things have to be finished? The current plan is to get everything to run on our side in January, with packaging left after that. Any ideas for a more concrete plan?

Here is a good place to start:
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NattyReleaseSchedule>.

> 2) libavg changes:
> - I'll be working to get libavg, the library these games are based on, to run with whatever multitouch API will be available in 11.04. We have a working driver for libmtdev - will that suffice? Other options seem to be the kernel slot API and XInput. What's the state of XInput multitouch?
> - The current libavg Ubuntu package is orphaned. I'll make a release in January - can someone assist us in getting the Ubuntu package updated? I don't think this is a lot of work, but no one here has any experience in that area.

This is not a problem.  Post on the multi-touch-dev list or in
#ubuntu-touch on freenode and someone will be glad to help out with
this.

> 3) Tests:
> We'll have some multitouch hardware here, but not enough to really make sure nothing breaks. Is there a way to get things tested on a diverse set of hardware?

Once we have packages, we have a large community of people with all
kinds of divers hardware waiting to test nifty stuff out.  We can push
packages up to a staging server (PPA) and spread the word through
various channels.

First, we need to get things packaged and start the process of getting
it uploaded to Ubuntu.

-- 
Stephen M. Webb <stephen.webb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Canonical Ltd.