On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, Denis Oliver Kropp wrote: > Attilio Fiandrotti schrieb: >> Sven Neumann wrote:
>>> Why is reloading the keymap needed in the first place? I suggest that >>> this is fixed in DirectFB instead of adding an API for the sole purpose >>> of working around what appears to be a bug in DirectFB. >> >> In the graphical debian-installer, which is GTKDFB based, the user >> chooses his native language at a early stage, and from that point on the >> keymap must match the choosed language. >> Manually reloading the keymap is an a acceptable workaround, but of >> course having DFB automatically doing that would be a better option: >> dok, could this be implemented in some future DFB release? > > I agree with Sven that the toolkit is not responsible for telling > the input driver about an updated kernel keymap. the toolkit handles this in the case of the X11 backend. > The way of selecting a keymap is very specific to the underlying > system, but how far is it supported via GDK at all? How does Gnome > change the keymap? Are all GTK+ instances notified about a switch to > flush certain states or cached information? X11 has it's own mechanism for keymap changes, applications receive a MappingNotify event upon such changes. you can grep for gdk_keymap_.*_changed in the gdk sources to read up on the related code portions and of course consult X11 docs. > -- > Best regards, > Denis Oliver Kropp --- ciaoTJ _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
