From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Sun Apr 3 03:20:15 2005 X-Original-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de Delivered-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de Subject: Re: [MiNT] Multimedia Keys & Notification From: "Evan K. Langlois" To: Petr Stehlik Cc: mint@fishpool.com In-Reply-To: <1112487528.6875.9.camel@joy.home> References: <1112486017.28763.205.camel@taro.coolrunningconcepts.com> <1112487528.6875.9.camel@joy.home> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=-/XnTZunP5pkk3nWBjTdX" Organization: Cool Running Concepts Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2005 19:17:21 -0600 Message-Id: <1112491042.28763.232.camel@taro.coolrunningconcepts.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - esc14.midphase.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - fishpool.com X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - CoolRunningConcepts.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-To: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: Evan@CoolRunningConcepts.com Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.9 tagged_above=-50.5 required=7.0 tests=AWL, BAYES_00, HTML_MESSAGE X-Spam-Level: --=-/XnTZunP5pkk3nWBjTdX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 03:18 +0200, Petr Stehlik wrote: > Evan K. Langlois p=ED=B9e v So 02. 04. 2005 v 17:53 -0600: >=20 > > There has been a lot of talk about multimedia keys recently >=20 > no. I think that Adam just wanted to allow running SDL applications in > AES environment. Which was a very good idea since currently such > applications have to implement their own keyboard driver and so disable > the system one which is both unclean and dangerous in multitasking OS. I have no problem with that - I think its a great idea. My issue is using multimedia keys as a justification to simultaneously expand keyboard scan-codes to 16 bits, as I feel that would just be problematic without real benefit. I also think there may be better ways of handling such keys than to report multi-byte scan-codes (translated & standardized or not) directly to applications. -- Evan --=-/XnTZunP5pkk3nWBjTdX Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 03:18 +0200, Petr Stehlik wrote:

Evan K. Langlois píše v So 02. 04. 2005 v 17:53 -0600:

> There has been a lot of talk about multimedia keys recently

no. I think that Adam just wanted to allow running SDL applications in
AES environment. Which was a very good idea since currently such
applications have to implement their own keyboard driver and so disable
the system one which is both unclean and dangerous in multitasking OS.

I have no problem with that - I think its a great idea. My issue is using multimedia keys as a justification to simultaneously expand keyboard scan-codes to 16 bits, as I feel that would just be problematic without real benefit. I also think there may be better ways of handling such keys than to report multi-byte scan-codes (translated & standardized or not) directly to applications.

-- Evan --=-/XnTZunP5pkk3nWBjTdX--