Niels Roest wrote: > Sven Neumann wrote:> Hi,>> On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 21:08 +0200, Ville Syrjälä > wrote:> >> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 07:03:05PM +0100, Niels Roest wrote:>> > >>> I understand that in some input device cases, a keymap will not > present.>>> Using an external utility doesn't seem very portable to me. I > mean, you >>> would want DirectFB to solve this in the library (or the > keyboard input >>> module), rather than linking an external app against > DirectFB. See it as >>> extended configuration..>>> I agree that loading it > from a file may not be the best way, but I would >>> rather solve it by > changing it to a more 'portable' API.>>> >> IMO DirectFB should only > provide the API that is needed to implement the> configuration file parser. > It should allow applications to configure the> keymap in case that the kernel > doesn't do this for a particular input> device.>> >> Hmm. Yeah, you're > right. I didn't think about that scenario. But the>> current code doesn't > really solve that issu! > e either since AFAICS there's>> no way to load the keymap via directfbrc, > but that should be simple to>> fix. So it seems that it is best to keep the > keymap parsing code in the>> library instead of moving it.>> >> Parsing a > keymap file appears somewhat out of scope for DirectFB. IMO it> would be best > if dfbinput would contain such code, serving as an example> that shows how > the DirectFB keymap API can be used.>>> Sven>> Ok... so you mean to move > load_keymap to a example application and keep > IDirectFBInputDevice_SetKeymapEntry? Sounds reasonable.> > _______________________________________________> directfb-dev mailing list> > directfb-dev@directfb.org> > http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-dev> > >
So for GTK-DFB apps would I be right in thinking that we are going to move load_keymap into the input handling? I don't think that this should be an issue, but does anyone closer to the GTK devs see any problems with this? Regards Nick _______________________________________________ directfb-dev mailing list directfb-dev@directfb.org http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-dev
