x/mobile: X11 Key Events

[noypi]

Please answer these questions before submitting your issue. Thanks!

What version of Go are you using (go version)?

1.7 (sorry i am using windows at the office, the issue occurs at home)

What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?

ubuntu amd64 (sorry i am using windows at the office, the issue occurs at home)

What did you do?

run flappy gopher

What did you expect to see?

key events are triggered

What did you see instead?

no key events triggered, and close button not functional.

key events are not yet implemented at

• app/x11.go
• app/x11.c

but shiny have implemented this:
https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/exp/shiny/driver/internal/x11key

Should gomobile reuse shiny?

[nigeltao]

It's not clear, in terms of layering, whether gomobile should re-use shiny, or shiny re-use gomobile, or whether they should both depend on some other library factored out.

Yes, x/mobile should probably translate key events, although the intent of the x/mobile/app package is to develop mobile apps, and mobile apps aren't usually primarily driven by key events. If you want to write a desktop app, the x/mobile probably isn't the solution.

[noypi]

i like to write mobile apps, but would test it in desktop.
i like to use x/mobile for now, perhaps shiny will have nice widgets in the future. so i would like it to be as abstract as it could get.
still trying to understand shiny though, but i need shiny to be customizable that i can add custom layout. example, what if cassowary is ported to golang, i like to use it in the future.