2017-12-05 18:50:56

by Jason Gerecke

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] Input: add KEY_ROTATE_LOCK_TOGGLE

Looks like this might also be needed for the MobileStudio Pro...

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197991

Jason
---
Now instead of four in the eights place /
you’ve got three, ‘Cause you added one /
(That is to say, eight) to the two, /
But you can’t take seven from three, /
So you look at the sixty-fours....



On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 9:51 AM, Brüns, Stefan
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Freitag, 10. November 2017 00:34:53 CET Bastien Nocera wrote:
>> On Thu, 2017-11-09 at 23:44 +0100, Stefan Brüns wrote:
>> > The key has the same use as the SW_ROTATE_LOCK, but is used on
>> > devices
>> > where the state is not tracked by the hardware but has to be handled
>> > in software.
>>
>> I'll let the input and hid subsystem maintainers have the final say
>> here, though I think that sending out Win+O would be easier, as this is
>> already something that desktops need to support for those devices that
>> send the actual Win+O key combination when those buttons are pressed
>> there.
>>
>> If we're going with the separate keycode, could you also file bugs
>> against xkbd-common and xkeyboard-config to get the key added to the
>> list of XF86 keysyms and to the default evdev keymap? Otherwise Wayland
>> and X11 based desktops won't be able to use it.
>
> Filed for xkeyboard-config:
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103998
>
> and xkb-common:
> https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/issues/55
>
> Regards,
>
> Stefan
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2018-01-25 16:24:46

by Jason Gerecke

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] Input: add KEY_ROTATE_LOCK_TOGGLE

Any movement on this? Are we just waiting on an ACK/NAK from Dmitry?

Jason
---
Now instead of four in the eights place /
you’ve got three, ‘Cause you added one /
(That is to say, eight) to the two, /
But you can’t take seven from three, /
So you look at the sixty-fours....


On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 10:50 AM, Jason Gerecke <[email protected]> wrote:
> Looks like this might also be needed for the MobileStudio Pro...
>
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197991
>
> Jason
> ---
> Now instead of four in the eights place /
> you’ve got three, ‘Cause you added one /
> (That is to say, eight) to the two, /
> But you can’t take seven from three, /
> So you look at the sixty-fours....
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 9:51 AM, Brüns, Stefan
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Freitag, 10. November 2017 00:34:53 CET Bastien Nocera wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2017-11-09 at 23:44 +0100, Stefan Brüns wrote:
>>> > The key has the same use as the SW_ROTATE_LOCK, but is used on
>>> > devices
>>> > where the state is not tracked by the hardware but has to be handled
>>> > in software.
>>>
>>> I'll let the input and hid subsystem maintainers have the final say
>>> here, though I think that sending out Win+O would be easier, as this is
>>> already something that desktops need to support for those devices that
>>> send the actual Win+O key combination when those buttons are pressed
>>> there.
>>>
>>> If we're going with the separate keycode, could you also file bugs
>>> against xkbd-common and xkeyboard-config to get the key added to the
>>> list of XF86 keysyms and to the default evdev keymap? Otherwise Wayland
>>> and X11 based desktops won't be able to use it.
>>
>> Filed for xkeyboard-config:
>> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103998
>>
>> and xkb-common:
>> https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/issues/55
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Stefan
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