On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:37:41AM +0200, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> On Thu, 28 May 2009 17:00:56 +0100
> "Daniel P. Berrange" <d...@berrange.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 01:59:51PM +0200, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> > > This thread seems to have died off.
> > > 
> > > Daniel, do you feel that your concerns have been addressed, or do we
> > > need more discussion?
> > 
> > I'm fine with the principle that key repeat should be generated client
> > side, but I'm not convinced that clients should send a series of
> > down-down-down events without agreeing this behaviour with the server.
> > 
> 
> Servers have to deal with this anyway given that the Windows vncviewer
> in both version 3 and 4 of RealVNC uses this behaviour, and almost
> every VNC implementation derives from these.
> 
> Also, given the dominance of the Windows platform, I'd say the
> absolute majority of all VNC sessions will already be using this
> method. So us stating that it is the preferred mode is only documenting
> reality as it already is.

Reality sucks :-( I've no objection to comitting this doc though
 
> What server was it that mishandled this sequence?

It was in the interaction between QEMU and the emulated guest OS' key
handling

Daniel
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