[PATCH weston] input: don't send to clients key events eaten by bindings

Bill Spitzak spitzak at gmail.com
Thu Nov 13 12:51:16 PST 2014


On 11/13/2014 01:53 AM, Daniel Stone wrote:

> wl_keyboard::enter sends the list of currently-depressed keys to the
> client. If we make it a partial list, depending on context, we make it
> useless. We'll send releases for keys the client never knew were down -
> which is _exactly_ the problem this event is trying to prevent.
>
> If we're making it an arbitrary list depending on whether it was a
> compositor hotkey, or depending on how you're nested, the event becomes
> useless as a guarantee and we might as well just drop it completely.
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel

Thank you for stepping in on this. This is what I have been trying to 
say for quite a while, though I admit I would use the wrong terms a lot 
and may have confused things. I believe you are clearly stating what my 
objection to this patch is.



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