From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
To: Ryan Lortie <desrt@desrt.ca>
Cc: "Zephaniah E. Hull" <warp@aehallh.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>,
linux-input <linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Input: Support for a less exclusive grab.
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:33:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200710232333.08306.dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1193191094.32696.2.camel@moonpix.desrt.ca>
On Tuesday 23 October 2007, Ryan Lortie wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-23-10 at 14:10 -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > No, rfkill want to see keypresses, period. It does not care if there
> > are other applications also seeing the same keypresses, it just does
> > not want keypresses stolen from it.
>
> Right. This is exactly the problem. The current grab API exists to
> prevent keys from being delivered to normal users, but rfkill still
> wants to see them.
>
> No matter how you slice it, if both of these desires are to be satisfied
> then there needs to be some sort of a system to differentiate between
> rfkill and "normal users". That's what the priority is here.
>
And the solution is pretty simple - do not use grab.
--
Dmitry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-24 3:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-09 8:48 [PATCH] Input: Support for a less exclusive grab Zephaniah E. Hull
2007-06-12 5:07 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-06-12 5:12 ` Zephaniah E. Hull
2007-06-12 5:19 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-06-12 5:23 ` Zephaniah E. Hull
2007-06-12 5:35 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-06-12 5:40 ` Zephaniah E. Hull
2007-07-02 15:20 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2007-07-03 16:45 ` Zephaniah E. Hull
2007-07-03 22:15 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2007-09-29 3:05 ` Ryan Lortie
2007-10-23 13:21 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-10-23 15:57 ` Ryan Lortie
2007-10-23 18:10 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-10-24 1:58 ` Ryan Lortie
2007-10-24 3:33 ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
2007-10-24 15:35 ` Zephaniah E. Hull
2007-10-25 5:37 ` Ryan Lortie
2007-10-26 16:44 ` Zephaniah E. Hull
2007-10-26 17:16 ` Ryan Lortie
2007-10-26 17:58 ` Zephaniah E. Hull
2007-10-26 17:29 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-10-26 17:29 ` Dmitry Torokhov
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