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[Daniel van Vugt <daniel.van.vugt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Summary changed:

- need fd (file descriptor) and dispatch function
+ [enhancement] need fd (file descriptor) and dispatch function

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Title:
  [enhancement] need fd (file descriptor) and dispatch function

Status in Mir:
  In Progress
Status in mir package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  A long-standing request only ever made in person (I think) so let's
  write it down:

  We need a way to get a pollable object out of the mir client library
  and a dispatch function to call so that we can integrate mir into the
  mainloop of the toolkit that is trying to use it.

  The thread-based delivery mechanism is inconvenient for most toolkits.

  The fd would ideally be the mir socket itself, but it could also be an
  eventfd that gets signalled from another thread.  In the name of
  efficiency we should try to cut out the extra threads entirely,
  though.

  The dispatch function would dispatch events to the registered
  delegate, directly from the thread in which it was called.

  Alternatively (or perhaps additionally), we could also use a function
  to manually dequeue events.

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