[PATCH xkbcomp] symbols: increase the warning level for shortening a key type

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Thu Nov 5 23:25:40 PST 2015


On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 04:21:14PM +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2015, at 00:06, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> > Any use of the german keyboard layout or anything else using
> > level3(ralt_switch) produces the warning
> >     Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but <RALT> has 2 symbols
> >     Ignoring extra symbols
> > This warning is meaningless, the default definition for RALT comes from
> > pc(pc105) including altwin(meta_alt) which defines it as TWO_LEVEL
> > and { Alt_R, Meta_R }. Including level3(ralt_switch) correctly sets it as
> > ONE_LEVEL but now we get the warning. That makes users file bug reports and we
> > can't be having that, can we?
> 
> A patch that actually fixes the bug that causes this warning to printed
> was proposed and reviewed a year ago:
>   http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/attachments/20140911/e675c15a/attachment.patch
> 
> It was first posted here;
>   http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2014-September/043751.html
> 
> Any chance of applying it still?

looks like there was some disagreement on the details between Ran and you,
ending with Ran's comment of "if you send a patch I will review it :)". I
don't think there was an updated version sent, was there?

Cheers,
   Peter
 


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