On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 01:03:30PM -0400, James M Leddy wrote: > On 08/09/2012 06:16 PM, James Cloos wrote: > > We do need to add a keysym for AudioMicMute, but do we want to continue > > to (ab)use XF86's keysym region or start a section for these types of > > keys in keysymdef.h? > > > > There were some posts a few years back promoting the notion that Xorg > > avoid additions to the xf86 block except to match xf86's own addtions. > > I know, but we added XF86TouchpadOn/Off with the explanation that it > would be weird to ungroup it from XF86TouchpadToggle. I think the same > logic applies here for XF86Audio keys. > > Personally, I don't see why we need to leave the XF86 namespace. Sure, > it isn't really ours, and there is potential for conflict, but I'd > expect the number of people using a mix of XF86/X.org servers/clients to > be extremely low or non-existent.
I agree, there's no technical reason for a namespace switch, it'll likely cause confusion. And while I haven't checked lately, I think xf86 hasn't had an amount of changes we really need to worry about. Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
