Code review comment for lp://staging/~mir-team/mir/introduce-pointer-event

Ah OK. That does kind of clarify another question I had --
Do we mean something that's a physical pointer or something that results in a mouse arrow cursor on screen? I think "pointer" means the latter here.

It sounds like MirRelativeInputEvent might still be more appropriate. At the raw level, they are indeed relative input devices. Only when "cooked" do such devices gain a logical pointing location on screen.

Maybe to avoid confusion over different meanings of pointer, we should say the source of the input is a MirRelativeInputEvent, and that /moves/ a cursor. The ambiguous word "pointer" doesn't need to come into it.

Similarly, a MirAbsoluteInputEvent (digitizer pen) might also move a cursor, in absolute terms (LP: #1396421)