On 3/31/06, Tom Spear speeddymon@gmail.com wrote:
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I think that rewriting the keyboard code in this way is a very good thing, and will be more than happy to help coordinate testing of it, although I can't test any myself. Rewriting the code should allow us to close many of the keyboard related bugs in bugzilla, which will be a big BIG plus in my book.
Like I said, if you want me to, I will coordinate testing of new code. I'll start a new thread called keyboard rewrite and ask for volunteers with different keyboard layouts to reply to that thread to test new code. I'm also going to create an offspring of the main wiki page for this project, once given confirmation that you will do the rewrite.
Tom
Tom,
"I offer a hand and you grab my arm?" ;-) (in Portuguese this is a funny quote...)
I just said that I *started thinking* in rewriting the code, and I am still thinking... Nevertheless, I'm not an experience C programmer -- like many programmers in this list -- and I don't know the X server API and what vkey, keycode and keyscan mean until the last month when I tried to solve bug 2400 ("Issue with Delete when NumLock active").
I have looked at the rdesktop code and found an approach completely different of my ideas, a sign that I may be wrong (and probably am) about "keysym2vkey". :-/
If Wine Devel Community has no problem in putting this task on new hands -- even though I can dedicate full time to that task -- I also haven't got a problem! 8D
I will get very happy if some more programmers offer some *arms* (or some comments) to help me. :-)
But... I have a request... ;-)
Please apply the patch that I have sent to fix bug 2400 [1], because the <del> + <comma> key bug is too annoying ... and, at least, the problem is reduced until we can deliver a new keyboard driver.
--- [1] http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2006-March/024891.html
Cheers, Augusto Arcoverde da Rocha