Re: [PATCH v2] Input: Allocate keycode for SNIP key

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On Tue, 3 Mar 2020 at 16:21, Rajat Jain <rajatja@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> New chromeos keyboards have a "snip" key that is basically a selective
> screenshot (allows a user to select an area of screen to be copied).
> Allocate a keyvode for it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rajat Jain <rajatja@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> V2: Drop patch [1/2] and instead rebase this on top of Linus' tree.
>
>  include/uapi/linux/input-event-codes.h | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/input-event-codes.h b/include/uapi/linux/input-event-codes.h
> index 0f1db1cccc3fd..08c8572891efb 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/input-event-codes.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/input-event-codes.h
> @@ -652,6 +652,9 @@
>  /* Electronic privacy screen control */
>  #define KEY_PRIVACY_SCREEN_TOGGLE      0x279
>
> +/* Selective Screenshot */
> +#define KEY_SNIP                        0x280
> +

It's not very obvious to me what KEY_SNIP represents, without the
comment above. Maybe you could call it something like
KEY_SELECTIVE_SCREENSHOT, so that its purpose is more apparent to
someone seeing it in use.

Harry Cutts
Chrome OS Touch/Input team

>  /*
>   * Some keyboards have keys which do not have a defined meaning, these keys
>   * are intended to be programmed / bound to macros by the user. For most
> --
> 2.25.0.265.gbab2e86ba0-goog
>



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