[Spice-devel] spice html5 keyboard issues

[Dietmar Maurer]

> > Besides, I still not understand how that should work. You (Marc) told
> > me that it is easy to get the correct scancodes, but the sources
> > contain the following comment:
> 
> Did I? I don't remember the context.

Again, my keysym patches provides a workaround for that problem.

> >
> > "** This will most likely not work for non US keyboard .."
> >
> > I am confused.
> 
> The main issue is that spice-html5 doesn't know what hw key was pressed, or the
> keyboard mapping. So it translates the key to a scancode, based on traditional
> US keyboard mapping. The spanish keyboard is relatively close to US keyboard,
> so that mostly works. But it can give very wrong results otherwise (for ex, french
> keyboard, pressing 'a' in client will result in 'q' in guest, when both are configured
> with french layout).

Seems you still not understand how my keysym patches can solve that problem :-/