On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 3:30 AM, Daniel Stone <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > On Thursday, November 13, 2014, Giulio Camuffo <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> 2014-11-13 12:06 GMT+02:00 Daniel Stone <[email protected]>: >> > But this is just a client issue, and nothing in sending the full keys >> array >> > precludes this working. >> > >> > If Alt+X is a modifier (i.e. any time Alt+X is held, pressing Y >> triggers the >> > shortcut), then the client can use the keys array to notice this, and >> ensure >> > the shortcut is fired. >> > >> > If Alt+(X+Y) is a cumulative shortcut, then the client knows from >> seeing X >> > in the enter array but not a key event, that it must wait for a release >> on X >> > before it arms the shortcut for Y. >> >> But no, because, when the focus isn't switched, there is no enter >> event and no keys array. The client has no idea X was pressed, so it >> can't possibly trigger the binding. >> So without the patch this is not consistent. Depending on whether the >> compositor binding switches the focus, the client binding works or it >> doesn't work. > > > A problem we can solve by switching the focus. ;) I agree that it's > annoying to always do this for every hotkey, so we could introduce a new > wl_keyboard::leave_temporary which would inform the client that it's about > to get another enter event very shortly, but shouldn't redraw itself > insensitive or anything. > wl_keyboard::leave should never affect the the window visibly. That's what the state in xdg-shell is for. > Alternately, we could bump the wl_keyboard version to just allow for > consecutive enter events and never send a leave in these temporal cases. > > For older clients, we can just send leave/enter and they can suck it up. > > Either way, it makes things more predictable and allows clients to work > out what's best. > > Cheers, > Daniel > > _______________________________________________ > wayland-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel > > -- Jasper
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