Re: More about XKB

2002-11-14 Thread M. Gerards
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 10:52:53PM +0100, M. Gerards wrote: > > > Why discuss this with the X people? The need to be able to reuse the > Hurd > > > extensions to keymaps in X is absolutely zero. The Hurd driver should > > > (internally) preload the default Hurd extensions (like Alt+F1 sitch to

Re: More about XKB

2002-11-14 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 10:52:53PM +0100, M. Gerards wrote: > > Why discuss this with the X people? The need to be able to reuse the Hurd > > extensions to keymaps in X is absolutely zero. The Hurd driver should > > (internally) preload the default Hurd extensions (like Alt+F1 sitch to VC1), > >

Re: More about XKB

2002-11-13 Thread M. Gerards
> Why discuss this with the X people? The need to be able to reuse the Hurd > extensions to keymaps in X is absolutely zero. The Hurd driver should > (internally) preload the default Hurd extensions (like Alt+F1 sitch to VC1), > and allow users to specify their own mappings, which can be in separ

Re: More about XKB

2002-11-13 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 10:28:08AM +0100, M. Gerards wrote: > We have to discuss the features we want to add with the X people. I think this > won't be a problem for some features like scrolling, but actions thast require > strings require bigger changes. The problems with such changes it that it

Re: More about XKB

2002-11-13 Thread M. Gerards
Citeren Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 11:06:32PM +0100, M. Gerards wrote: > > Before you can understand what it does you first have to know what it > > is. This plugin is no driver (as it is now), but it is an additional layer > between > > the console-client and

Re: More about XKB

2002-11-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 11:06:32PM +0100, M. Gerards wrote: > Before you can understand what it does you first have to know what it > is. This plugin is no driver (as it is now), but it is an additional layer between > the console-client and the driver. XKB is the X Keyboard Extention, > the X way

More about XKB

2002-11-12 Thread M. Gerards
Hi, I've been working on the XKB console-client plugin for some weeks now. In this mail I will inform you what I have done, what needs to be done and how XKB globally works. This is a huge mail for something simple like a keyboard, but well... I hope many people understand more about keyboards tha