Roadmap #5 (touch, ahead of the XL UHID DualSense work). Touch fits the existing 18-byte
InputEvent: code = touch id, x/y = client pixels, flags = (w<<16)|h — the same absolute
mapping as MouseMoveAbs.
- core: InputKind::{TouchDown=9, TouchMove=10, TouchUp=11} + from_u8 + roundtrip test.
- host inject/libei.rs: request the RemoteDesktop Touchscreen device type, bind the Touch
capability, and inject ei_touchscreen down/motion/up (one event = one frame, per the
protocol rule), mapping coordinates into the device region like the abs pointer. wlroots
has no virtual-touch protocol wired — no-ops there.
- client-rs --touch-test: drags a synthetic finger (touch id 0) in a circle.
Validated live on headless KWin: the portal GRANTS the Touchscreen device type
(Keyboard|Pointer|Touchscreen), proving the request path — but KWin's EIS server creates no
touchscreen *device*, so touch currently no-ops on this KWin (now logged once, not silent).
The injection code is correct and will land on a backend that exposes ei_touchscreen
(gamescope / a newer compositor / the real touch-client path). Workspace green, clippy/fmt
clean, +1 unit test.
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A 4-agent read of the host crate: a Windows host is an "add a backend" job, not a parallel
port — ~95% reuse (core/protocol/FEC/crypto/C-ABI, QUIC, GameStream, mgmt, m3/pipeline are all
platform-agnostic and already cfg-isolated). New cfg(windows) backends behind the existing
traits: DXGI Desktop Duplication (capture), Media Foundation / NVENC-SDK (encode), SendInput +
ViGEm (input), WASAPI loopback + virtual mic (audio). The blocker is the virtual-display
feature — no user-mode Windows API; it needs a signed kernel-mode IDD driver (XL).
docs/windows-host.md records the per-subsystem effort + a phased plan (Phase 0 = a "basic
Windows host" capturing an existing monitor, smallest surface). Deferred: large and unbuildable
on the Linux dev box, per the request to only take it on if manageable. roadmap.md marks
#1/#2/#4 done, #3 packaged, and adds #7 Windows.
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Research-grounded sequence + per-goal approach/effort. Decisions: start with KDE startup
reliability; Bazzite via COPR RPM then bootc image; commit to full UHID DualSense.
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