Why is the engine even checking input devices so often? Shouldn't the input device be registered via settings and then assumed to exist when the game runs? It seems wasteful to check all input devices every few seconds.
Exactly. It should enumerate them when the player opens settings. Or at startup. But even if it wants to do this, why is it doing it on the main thread!? :(
If I start the game without a gamepad attached to the computer, and then attach the gamepad, I'd like to use the gamepad without restarting the game. And one would expect that polling the attached input devices should never take hundreds or thousands of milliseconds, there must be something seriously wrong in the Linux input device stack or maybe in one of the input device drivers.