Lighthouse Issues

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Lighthouse status - what works currently

OpenGL

• glx-based QGLWidget - also supporting child widgets
• EGL-based full-screen widget

Window system integration

• linux framebuffer (/dev/fbX , use with -platform linuxfb after building linuxfb)
• VNC ( -platform vnc after building vnc)
• DirectFB
• OpenKODE
• X11
• multi-process shared memory surface demo

Font system

• Pluggable font database
• application fonts
• TTF/QPF2 fonts read from

  $QTDIR/lib/fonts
  

• fontconfig

Input events

• Thread safe event handling
• Linux input system
• tslib
• multiple touch points

Lighthouse bugs, known issues and things that need doing

Missing features

• Clipboard
• Drag and drop
• Keymap support
• Multimedia

Architecture

• Mouse/keyboard state logic for input events

Missing functionality

• QWidget::showMaximized()/Minimized()/FullScreen()
  

• desktop services
• focus/activation
• frameGeometry
• mouse/keyboard grabbing