On Sun, 2017-03-19 at 12:32 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > The things you find when cleaning out your old open bugs... > > Since the code has been like this for over two decades, it's too late to > change it even if we wanted to, and the code is a better match for other > XKB functions, so it appears this was just a forgotten edit in the spec > long ago, which Sun then propogated into the man pages based on the spec. > > We found this originally when updating the Solaris AccessX code base from > the old standalone extension to using XKB instead, and reported it at the > time to the old X.Org Group, and waited for them to convene their standards > committee to update the formal standard spec. > > That didn't happen before the X.Org industry consortium handed X off to the > X.Org open source foundation. I forwarded the bug for the new X.Org standards > at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=251 which waited for us to > figure out what the standards process would be. Once we decided there was > effectively none, then we waited to get the XKB specs doc converted from > FrameMaker into a open format we could edit (thanks Matt!) and by the time > that was done, this was long forgotten.
My goodness! Thanks for the diligence. Series is: Reviewed-by: Adam Jackson <[email protected]> - ajax _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
