Re: [Tlf-devel] Improved keyboard handling

[Thomas Beierlein]

Am Mon, 4 Jan 2016 18:01:16 -0600
schrieb Nate Bargmann <address@hidden>:

> * On 2016 04 Jan 15:14 -0600, Ervin Hegedüs wrote:
> ... snip
> > Here are some screenshots about the different terminal types when
> > Tlf runs in:
> > 
> > https://www.dropbox.com/sh/o66fidr21uryjwe/AADu-dKIta7PxYbCSiNLYmqPa
> 
> That looks more like color theme differences.  For example, Ubuntu
> has a very different color scheme for Xfce Terminal than Debian.  At
> this time the keyboard is my focus.

Color scheme is a second matter with similar, but not the same problem
as keyboard handling. 

One of the problems is that ncurses normally supports only 8
background colors but allows additional highlighted versions for the
foregound. A lot of the weird color settings in the code have their
origin in that.

Further quirks are coming from the fact that such features as
underlined, flash, blinking or terminal beep are implemented different
(or not at all). 

So Nate is right, let us concentrate on input handling first. 
 
73, de Tom

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