A repost now that I found the Wayland discussion list... Who is doing the libxkbcommon work? Please add them to the thread. --------------------------------------------------------- Wayland presents and opportunity to ditch xkeys. What do you think about having Wayland apps use the kernel keysyms and drop the whole legacy xkey world? Of course we would keep that library around for legacy purposes. The goal is to build a key mapping system usable by all apps/windowing systems, not just X. We have a opportunity here to redesign the keymap system for direct Wayland apps and not repeat the legacy problems from X. Clearly there is more to this than just using scan codes out of the kernel. I'm no expert on keymapping but I'll try and get the discussion started. There's some discussion here about the deficiencies in X keyboard handling... http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/LibXklavier ---------------------------- Another thought on this would be to move the kernel definitions of multimedia keys to a private space in Unicode. Currently they are defined on top of existing characters in Unicode. Doing this will remove the need to remap them. The Unicode people have been asked to directly support multimedia keys in Unicode and they have declined to do so since there are too many variations. -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
