Auto key repeat in wayland.

[Pekka Vuorela]

On 19.03.2013 22:13, Bill Spitzak wrote:
> Yichao Yu wrote:
>
>> I am just wondering if those clients also don't want auto-repeat for
>> text input. If there is a way to turn off auto-repeat for a client,
>> should that also turn off the auto-repeat when the input method grab
>> the keyboard from the client?
>
> That is a good point, the input method api may need to indicate if the
> insertion is due to a repeated key, if it is possible to unambiguously
> identify this. Then the client can ignore it and not do the insertion.
>
> Isn't this sometimes done by password fields and some other small input
> fields? It may also be useful if the insertion is an error, in that it
> will only beep or flash on the first one, rather than blinking
> repeatedly if the user holds the key down.

Don't really see a need for this. Input method can decide not to use 
autorepeat consistently for password fields if password editors properly 
indicate with content type hints that they are such.