Re: Why does xscribble work so hard?

> Why does xscribble work so hard to synthesize the "right" keys? Why
> not just generate a Shift-L when the user strokes up?

A good question; I did it that way because it was easier; simply hooking
the output of the existing recogniser into a simple event generation
routine.

One reason is that the shift modes in scribble don't map easily to the
keyboard shift modes; shift affects only the next keystroke and there are
lots of other shift states.

Another is that scribble shifts don't obviously map to X shifts; how should
it handle Shift '2', for example? There is a fake keyboard inside the X
server which has a single key for '2' and '@', but there's a good reason
not to expect the user to understand that.

keithp_at_keithp.com XFree86 Core Team SuSE, Inc.
Received on Fri Sep 08 2000 - 22:14:55 EDT