Keyboard Rewrite

[Tom Spear]

Hi all, this is a call for volunteers.  I am hoping that certain developers
participating in another thread are willing to rewrite the keyboard code,
but we need people to test.  If you are interested, please reply here saying
that you are interested, and what kind of keyboard you use, as well as the
layout you use under X.  I will be creating a wiki page for this project
once the people who will be taking on this rewrite confirm that they will do
so, and will post the link to this thread as soon as it is created.

The purpose of this rewrite is to (hopefully) fix all of the problems people
have with key mappings, characters not showing up as expected, race
conditions, characters not showing up at all, etc, and hopefully allow us to
close out many of the bugs in bugzilla having to do with the keyboard.

Thanks all in advance

Tom

[Molle Bestefich]

I have a couple of Danish keyboards.
I'll gladly spend some time testing with those.

(I even have one with A1-A4 keys...)

[Willie Sippel]

Am Freitag, 31. März 2006 21:33 schrieb Tom Spear:
> Hi all, this is a call for volunteers.  I am hoping that certain developers
> participating in another thread are willing to rewrite the keyboard code,
> but we need people to test.  If you are interested, please reply here
> saying that you are interested, and what kind of keyboard you use, as well
> as the layout you use under X.  I will be creating a wiki page for this
> project once the people who will be taking on this rewrite confirm that
> they will do so, and will post the link to this thread as soon as it is
> created.
>
> The purpose of this rewrite is to (hopefully) fix all of the problems
> people have with key mappings, characters not showing up as expected, race
> conditions, characters not showing up at all, etc, and hopefully allow us
> to close out many of the bugs in bugzilla having to do with the keyboard.
>
> Thanks all in advance
>
> Tom

If this is about testing, I'll gladly help. I use a German SUN Type6 keyboard 
(only one control key, Compose key, SUN keys instead of Windows keys, no menu 
key) with German layout and swapcaps. I also used to use an application that 
crashes due to a regression in Wine's keyboard handling it seems - could be a 
nice test app.

[Tom Spear]

On 3/31/06, Willie Sippel  wrote:
> Am Freitag, 31. März 2006 21:33 schrieb Tom Spear:
> > Hi all, this is a call for volunteers.  I am hoping that certain
>
> developers
> > participating in another thread are willing to rewrite the keyboard
>
> code,
> > but we need people to test.  If you are interested, please reply here
> > saying that you are interested, and what kind of keyboard you use, as
>
> well
> > as the layout you use under X.  I will be creating a wiki page for this
> > project once the people who will be taking on this rewrite confirm that
> > they will do so, and will post the link to this thread as soon as it is
> > created.
> >
> > The purpose of this rewrite is to (hopefully) fix all of the problems
> > people have with key mappings, characters not showing up as expected,
>
> race
> > conditions, characters not showing up at all, etc, and hopefully allow
>
> us
> > to close out many of the bugs in bugzilla having to do with the
>
> keyboard.
> > Thanks all in advance
> >
> > Tom
>
> If this is about testing, I'll gladly help. I use a German SUN Type6
> keyboard
> (only one control key, Compose key, SUN keys instead of Windows keys, no
> menu
> key) with German layout and swapcaps. I also used to use an application
> that
> crashes due to a regression in Wine's keyboard handling it seems - could
> be a
> nice test app.
>
> --
> Willie Sippel
>
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> Thank you all for your submissions.  Please keep 'em coming.  I am headed

home now, and will organize all emails for this thread into a different
folder on my machine so I can keep track of them.  If some devs come forward
and agree to start cracking on a keyboard rewrite, I will take my sorted
emails and create the wiki page.  I have the layout figured out in my head,
but it is kinda hard to describe.  You will see it in a few days, and I
think you will like it.

I do have a question for anyone who knows though.  There are 2 distinct
variations on the most common keyboard bugs.  Keyboard output gets sent to
console, or doesnt work at all; and these keys on my keyboard don't work or
dont work as expected, or this layout isn't recognized by wine and wine said
to report it here.  Is the first variation a bug in the keyboard code, or is
it something to do with some other component of wine?  I ask because we
already have a metabug in bugzilla, and I don't want to link those bugs to
the metabug if they arent a bug in the keyboard code..  I'd rather link it
to a directx metabug (if there is one) or so forth.

Tom

[Segin]

Tom Spear wrote:
> Hi all, this is a call for volunteers.  I am hoping that certain 
> developers participating in another thread are willing to rewrite the 
> keyboard code, but we need people to test.  If you are interested, 
> please reply here saying that you are interested, and what kind of 
> keyboard you use, as well as the layout you use under X.  I will be 
> creating a wiki page for this project once the people who will be 
> taking on this rewrite confirm that they will do so, and will post the 
> link to this thread as soon as it is created.
>
> The purpose of this rewrite is to (hopefully) fix all of the problems 
> people have with key mappings, characters not showing up as expected, 
> race conditions, characters not showing up at all, etc, and hopefully 
> allow us to close out many of the bugs in bugzilla having to do with 
> the keyboard.
>
> Thanks all in advance
>
> Tom

Sure, I'll help. Let me go fetch my X settings... (opens nedit on 
/etc/X11/xorg.conf....)

I don't know what this qualifies as, but it's 'hp5181' (my keyboard is a 
HP5181), The keyboard rules appear to be pc104 with extra code for 
extended keys, XF86Audio[InsetKeyHere], example, XF86AudioPlay (or 
whatever the name for it is, i know that XF86Audio part is right)

My X config for the keyboard subject:

Section "InputDevice"

# miles of xorgcfg comments stripped for breverty, never removed them
# ...
    Identifier     "Keyboard1"
    Driver         "kbd"
    Option         "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
    Option         "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option         "XkbModel" "hp5181"
    Option         "XkbLayout" "en_US"
EndSection