Auto key repeat in wayland.

[Friar]

Please also consider the case of video games that are running in
non-full-screen mode that don't WANT key auto-repeat.  They should have a
way to turn off repeated notifications.  Having to wade through a ton of
auto-repeated keyboard events to find the actual up/down signals is likely
to cause some input lag and even a few milliseconds can affect performance.
 Clients shouldn't be forced to create crazy outside connections directly
to input devices to get primitive input handling.

--Brenden


On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Bill Spitzak <spitzak at gmail.com> wrote:

> For text, I would expect the input method is going to do the key-repeat. I
> can't see any way around that. So for the most common use of key repeat it
> is going to be handled outside the client, and users will see a held-down
> letter repeatedly insert at the same rate in all clients (or at least all
> clients that also correctly work with input methods).
>
> If the user holds down a function key, imho it would be nice if the
> compositor did the repeat. The repeat events just have to be clearly
> identified so if a client really wants to do it's own rate, all it has to
> do is ignore the repeat events. This does avoid annoying problems where
> clients on the same display disagree, and it
>
> For the same reasons, I also feel that holding the mouse button down
> should "repeat", and holding the mouse still should produce "hover events"
> (for highlight and popping up tooltips), mouse clicks should be marked with
> whether the compositor thinks they are "double", and dragging the mouse
> should produce a "this is a real drag" event when the compositor thinks it
> moves far enough that the user really is trying to move something. All
> these would get rid of the incredibly annoying mismatch between clients
> that current X and Windows programs have. Again the events just have to be
> clearly marked so it is easy for a client to ignore them and do it's own
> processing in cases it wants to be different.
>
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