On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 7:12 AM, Giovanni Campagna <[email protected]> wrote:
> > So, assuming this is indeed a limit that we want to fix, why not > fixing at the right level, i.e. Xorg? > I recently looked at the Xkb and XI2 protocols, and I saw no > particular limitations to using more than 4 groups (up to 255, which > is a much more reasonable limit). There is indeed a limitation in the > core protocol, but that's only used by legacy applications. > In any case, I believe this discussion should be moved to xorg-devel, > as the proposed solution (setxkbmap equivalent) not only has > performance regressions, it will also cause problems with keybindings > in non-latin layouts, as applications will no longer have another > latin group to fallback on. The problem is that xkb uses 2 bits in the core event state mask to communicate the group. That limitation very much affects xkb. A while an xkb2 would be nice, it seems a pipe dream at this point. People have been talking about it for years, nothing ever happened. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
