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

Bill Spitzak spitzak at gmail.com
Fri Oct 10 18:32:15 PDT 2014


>> The client will do some kind of check to see if the space key is down. This
>> should resemble as much as possible a round trip to actually see if the key
>> is pressed on the hardware. I figured this involved peeking into the xkb
>> structure to see what keys are held down.
>
> "some kind of check". Making a roundtrip is not acceptable.

Yes this is why I expect it will check the local key-down map and that 
there are events that update it.
> So, you after all have no objection to this patch, but to the general
> way key bindings are implemented in Weston.
> Please, find a way to make them work and send a patch.

I have an objection to this patch in that it moves things further from 
what I think is correct behavior.

I agree that a patch to add the necessary event would help.



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