rust-windowing / rust-windowing/winit
Tracking Issue: Gamepad support and device events overhaul
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D - average
DS - appkit
DS - uikit
DS - wayland
DS - web
DS - x11
H - good first issue
H - help wanted
P - high
S - api
S - enhancement
S - meta
- Dominant language
- Rust
- Stars
- 6.2k
- Forks
- 1.3k
- Avg merge
- 2d 19h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 9
Description
This issue tracks the implementation of gamepad support and the device events API changes begun in #804. PRs working on this should be made against the gamepad-device-events branch, and we'll merge that branch onto master once it's implemented on all platforms.
- Public API finalized
- Implemented on all platforms
- Windows
- macOS
- iOS
- Linux X11
- Linux Wayland
- WASM
- Updated feature matrix, if new features were added or implemented.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading the changes from #804 and the gamepad-device-events branch, then review the checklist to understand the remaining platform work. The issue is done when the public API is finalized, support is implemented for macOS, iOS, Linux X11, and Linux Wayland, and the feature matrix is updated if needed.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust, wasm
- Domain
- desktop, mobile-dev, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100