[PATCH] libinput device capability modification regarding combo input devices

[박성진]

Dear Bill Spitzak, thanks for your opinion. : )

 

As we know, there are a lot of keyboards or keyboard-like devices.

Some of them will be keypads or special keyboards for game or other purposes.

For those kinds of keyboards, we don’t need to care and we can deal with the events in the usual manner (e.g. send them to focus surface/window).

 

When it comes to mobile or TV, we can have another stories.

In mobile/TV, in some cases, we need to deal with a set of keys attached in the device in a special manner, therefore we need to distinguish the keys in the set from the normal keyboard keys.

 

For instance, in mobile, we can see some keys attached in our mobile devices.

Those kinds of keys are usually not for input texts but for triggering some actions.

In a usual application, volume up/down keys will be the keys for raising/lowering the volume.

By the way, in an application like a message application, volume up/down keys can be used to adjust the font size.

Therefore each key attached in mobile device needs to be sent to each needed surface/window in a dynamically changeable delivery policy for each key because there are many applications which want to get a key even they don’t have the input focus.

Actually in many requirements in mobile devices, distinguishing between the normal(?) keyboards and the special set of key/buttons are needed and we need to have a key delivery manager which resides in a window manager for sending the special set of keys to the proper application(s).

 

Thanks and regards,

Sung-Jin Park

 

From: Bill Spitzak [mailto:spitzak at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, September 25, 2015 4:37 AM
To: 박성진
Cc: Andreas Pokorny; Peter Hutterer; wayland
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libinput device capability modification regarding combo input devices

 

 

 

On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 6:52 PM, 박성진 <sj76.park at samsung.com> wrote:

Dear Andreas Pokorny, thanks for your reply. J

 

As you mentioned, we also need to distinguish between a full keyboard and a device which has a set of few keys.

Each key coming from the full keyboard will be sent to the focus surface(window).

However, a key coming from the device which has a few keys sometimes needs to be sent to the other surface(window) other than the focused surface(window).

 

Seems like the keyboard flag can just indicate a "full keyboard". It is hard to imagine an input device that does not have a few buttons so this can be assumed.

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