<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 29 July 2014 00:40, Bill Spitzak <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spitzak@gmail.com" target="_blank">spitzak@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="">I am unconvinced that any real clients will actually do this</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>They do. They all do.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="">It seems like this should be implemented by having "Alt+V" translate to the "Paste" keysym.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>No, this falls apart because ... well, no, I'm not going to repeat myself a tenth time. It just does.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">This moves all the keyboard mapping to a common location in the keyboard descriptions. There is no more reason the client should figure out that Alt+V is paste than it should figure out that shift+5 is "%", other than historical legacy. This idea is not as unworkable as you may think if the "V" keysym is also returned as the unshifted value, and if keysyms are replaced with small strings.</div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Every single time someone brings up anything related to keyboards, you say the same thing. And I explain how I'm pretty sure it can't work. Then you explain that you don't see why it shouldn't.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Given that, and the fact that our original design for the keyboard interface started off with keysym events _only_ (not on mailing lists, I don't think - was an in-person meeting a couple of years ago) but we couldn't figure out a way to make it work, I'm pretty confident in this.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I'm getting pretty sick of having literally the same discussion with you pretty much every month. Can you please either write actual code for a sample environment (with working shortcuts and all) which demonstrates that your ideas actually function in the real world, or just stop bringing it up every time someone mentions keyboards?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks.</div></div></div></div>