> On 3/31/06, Tom Spear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [cut] > I think that rewriting the keyboard code in this way is a very good thing, > and will be more than happy to help coordinate testing of it, although I > can't test any myself. Rewriting the code should allow us to close many of > the keyboard related bugs in bugzilla, which will be a big BIG plus in my > book. > > Like I said, if you want me to, I will coordinate testing of new code. I'll > start a new thread called keyboard rewrite and ask for volunteers with > different keyboard layouts to reply to that thread to test new code. I'm > also going to create an offspring of the main wiki page for this project, > once given confirmation that you will do the rewrite. > > Tom
Tom, "I offer a hand and you grab my arm?" ;-) (in Portuguese this is a funny quote...) I just said that I *started thinking* in rewriting the code, and I am still thinking... Nevertheless, I'm not an experience C programmer -- like many programmers in this list -- and I don't know the X server API and what vkey, keycode and keyscan mean until the last month when I tried to solve bug 2400 ("Issue with Delete when NumLock active"). I have looked at the rdesktop code and found an approach completely different of my ideas, a sign that I may be wrong (and probably am) about "keysym2vkey". :-/ If Wine Devel Community has no problem in putting this task on new hands -- even though I can dedicate full time to that task -- I also haven't got a problem! 8D I will get very happy if some more programmers offer some *arms* (or some comments) to help me. :-) But... I have a request... ;-) Please apply the patch that I have sent to fix bug 2400 [1], because the <del> + <comma> key bug is too annoying ... and, at least, the problem is reduced until we can deliver a new keyboard driver. --- [1] http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2006-March/024891.html Cheers, Augusto Arcoverde da Rocha