On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 12:22:10PM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > >> Hmm, they use KEY_0 through KEY_9 now. > > > >Which results in the phone sending 'é+ěščřžýáí' instead of > >'0123456789' > >on a Czech keyboard, which is definitely not what's intended. Similarly > >for many other European keyboards. > > > > Hmm, I uttely confused. Why when atkbd emits KEY_0 it you get 0 in the > shell (don't you?) but different result with phone keypad?
No, on a Czech keyboard you don't. You press KEY_0, you get 'é'. The French layout gives sililar results. (For '0' you need to press KEY_SHIFT KEY_0.) > >I'll have to figure out where does KEY_103RD come from. I believe it was > >defined as a key similar to KEY_102ND on specific national keyboards. > >Brazil springs to mind, but I might be completely wrong. If it's not in > >use today, we might as well kill it and reuse the code. > > You had it in the beginning but it was removed around 2.6.2 so 84 is > free at the moment. OK then. > >I don't think that it'd be a huge problem to expand KEY_MAX. I'm not > >entirely convinced we want to have a different event code for every > >different key numbered '5'. > > But they are different as in people expect different actions when they > press 5 on the keyboard, keypad, remote control and phone, don't they? Maybe yes. If they had a input device from hell combining all this functionality into one, they'd likely still want to differentiate between the keys. > Well, maybe not... I can argue both ways I guess... It's more like > people may not want input from certain devices be used by certain > programs (like they don't like RC cause numbers to be printed in the > shell). But people like the fact that the 'voip' phone devices type regular keys into the voip client programs, because that's what the programs expect, the keys typed on a regular keyboard ... You can't win in all cases. > So far they used grabbing on the devices but I don't think > this is sustainable in the long run. They likely want per-device keymaps. This would also allow to have two keyboards, with different language layouts, connected at the same time. I know a number of people asked how to do that in the past. -- Vojtech Pavlik Director SuSE Labs
