Re: standart events for hotkeys?

From: Michal Semler
Date: Sat Apr 24 2004 - 12:22:30 EST


On Saturday 24 of April 2004 19:14, you wrote:
> On Saturday 24 April 2004 20:00, Michal Semler wrote:
> > > > Does any standart exist for hotkeys and their returned events?
> > >
> > > I believe vojtech already has codes assigned to keys like those.
> >
> > Hmmm and all the drivers has to use them?
>
> Just to clear some confusion: the event interface has keycodes assigned for
> nearly everything (thanks to Vojtech) so that's not the problem. The
> problem is that a Email key on a Dell is different from an Email key on
> Microsoft keyboard. There's no standard so it's REALLY difficult to support
> those apart from collecting info about hundreds of different keyboards and
> their hotkeys.

yes,

and this is what I mean. We should start project collecting this. As PCI cards
list for example.

That is my opinion. And yours?

Michal
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