libinput configuration?

[colemickens]

I wrote the initial libinput config for sway. I don't like writing C and was thinking about contributing similar functionality here so that I can compare the dev experience of Rust and C for a small contribution to an existing OSS project.

Is this something of interest? Any ideas on how you might want to see it implemented? Seems like you write the core functionality in Rust and then it's exposed with lua for configuration...

I think it should be straightforward since this also uses wlc like sway.

[colemickens]

Looks like there'd be work to do here too: https://github.com/Immington-Industries/rust-wlc/blob/master/src/input.rs

[Timidger]

That'd be awesome, lib input configuration has been one of those things that slipped through the cracks since we are such a small development team.

input.rs is just a thin wrapper over the functions exposed by wlc (like the rest of wlc). We are planning to split it up into two crates actually: one that wraps C, the other that makes it more rust friendly (and hides all those pesky lazy statics).

That's a ways off however, so any changes you need to make rust-wlc side feel free to put it there and we can split it up later.

For configuration we do use Lua, and it's super simple to add new values that Way Cooler can read. If you need any help working with anything (docs are a bit scarce) feel free to ping us on the gitter chat

[Drakulix]

Just a quick heads up, because I am not sure, if you (@Timidger) kept track of smithay's and input.rs' progress.

libinput bindings are done and you should be able to use them (especially this) to handle wlcs libinput device pointer and make configuration easily available.

I would actually love to get some testing and feedback out of this as I am not sure if I will implement this in fireplace and/or wlc.rs soon, because I am quite busy working on smithay.

[Timidger]

@Drakulix Thanks for the heads up, I've been keeping an eye on smithay, but not as close of an eye on input.rs. I'll take a look at that sometime later (@colemickens feel free to take a look as well if you're still interested in doing tihs)