On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 03:07:04PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Le samedi 06 novembre 2010 à 10:57 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones a écrit : > > > Is Fedora for developers or what? > > > > We want to ditch extremely useful, ground-breaking features because of > > "tearing" when scrolling in a browser window? > > Well it would be mightily nice to have an infrastructure that can handle > keyboard extended keys (almost every new keyboard sold in the last > decade has one or more of those) without barfing because the original > x11 protocol designers thought 8 bits would be enough for everyone. > > The ground breaking parts can come afterwards. Input on X is so bad this > is becoming ridiculous (another example being X has no notion of > language, just layouts, so there's no way for apps to know the language > being typed and auto-select the correct spellchecker) Why throw away everything just so we can make input better? (And in any case wasn't evdev supposed to fix this?) Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/ See what it can do: http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/recipes.html -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
