From: Marcus Sundberg <e94_msu@elixir.e.kth.se>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 18:01:05 +0200

Re: keyboard.h changes

> Marcus writes:
> 
> >  [sniped good points about keyboard handling]
> >  
> >  > What do you think ?
> >  
> >  Sound's very good to me.
> >  As you seem to know Linux keyhandling better than me, could you 
> >  please update the display/common/linux2ggi_keysym.inc with
> >  translations according to this scheme?
> 
> I would love to move over to this new modifier scheme, but the burning
> question is still whether GGI Console (or some other KGI console
> implementation) needs keyboard.h to be compatible with Linux keysyms
> and all the keymaps...

If GGI Console needs to be compatible with Linux it should use
an unmodified linux/keyboard.h.

Current Linux apps (and kernel functions) doesn't have a clue
about what a ggi_key_event is, so I can't possibly see any
reason to why the content of ggi_key_event should depend on
Linux keysyms at all. If GGI Console wants compability, which it
must if it ever wants to get into the kernel, it needs to convert
from/to ggi_key_event to what Linux uses regardless of what's
inside ggi_key_event.

//Marcus
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