Re: Modifier mapping in X11

[Adam Fedor]

On Aug 14, 2004, at 11:22 AM, Kazunobu Kuriyama wrote:
> In principle, any multi-platform environment is supposed to be designed
> to be independent of any characteristics of the underlying systems,
> so that the users won't need to recognize any difference between
> platforms in use to exploit such environment effectively.  Accordingly,
> if GNUstep needs some mechanism that facilitates key swappings, it
> should implement that mechanism for itself in such a way that it
> doesn't rely directly on the underlying window system, if possible.

That's a nice ideal, but it doesn't really seem practical here, or at 
least not worth as much time as it might take to implement. At some 
point you're going to have to deal with mapping windowing codes to some 
internal GNUstep representation, so it doesn't appear to save much.