RE: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu monitor keyboard functionality

[Noam Taich]

That would only mean that the monitor was suffering from the same problem 
before the patch, since the keys that were supported before were already 
layout-specific.

The patch does not intend to change the way the monitor works and improve its 
localization and internationalization support, just to extend existing 
functionalities.

More keys were added to the monitor using the layout that the existing keys 
were using.


Indeed, in the future it would be nice to have multiple keyboard layout 
support, which is indeed lacking right now, but for now, the monitor does not 
supply support for this, and was simply lacking many keys in what it does 
support, which is a much bigger problem.

So this patch is a step in the right direction.

This is as far as specific keys are concerned,
The "sendstring" addition seems to be just an important thing to have, and it 
is a bit useless with that many keys missing anyway.

-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Samuel Thibault
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 7:45 PM
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu monitor keyboard functionality

Noam Taich, le Mon 31 Dec 2007 09:02:08 -0800, a écrit :
> Qemu monitor had many missing keys that could not be (easily) sent,
> 
> And there was no mechanism for sending strings properly.
> 
> This patch fixes the problem and enhances the monitor's functionality.

Mmm, isn't there a keyboard layout issue?  Far from all keyboards are US
qwerty...

Samuel