Re: Physical keyboard events

[Peter Feigl]

> Everything else wants the keysym of “the” Latin-based layout if there
> is one and only one; the keycode if there is none; and some heuristic
> tiebreaker for the case where the user has more than one Latin-based
> layout configured.

I have a keyboard that has dvorak-like layout and emits these keycodes
*physically*. There are many other variations of this around. The
keycode tells you *nothing* about the physical location of a key, so if
you were to use it for – as an example – using WASD for moving a
character around the screen, that would be entirely useless for these
keyboards, because WASD are *not* in the positions you assume them to
be.

Of course you could argue that that's just a few percent of the users,
so we shouldn't care about them, they'll cope in some other way.

I've seen way too many applications (e.g. many games) try to guess the
active keyboard layout, and invariably fail on anything non-standard.

There's a reason why Xorg allows to remap everything, it would be a
shame to not support all this flexibility.

Greetings,
Peter