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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
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On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 11:57:18AM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> say that they only care about notifications arising from keypresses
> then I will add EV_NOTIFY type of events to input layer. What events
> would we need? I can imagine:

Why use EV_NOTIFY? They're still keys. I'd also quibble with the need 
for adding _NOTIFY varients of already existing keys - the existing 
consumers can all cope already.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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