Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Fix qemu keymaps, part one

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 03:18:25PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 04:01:14PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > qemu carries a bunch of reverse keymaps in pc-bios/keymaps/, to map
> > keysyms it receives from vnc clients back to keycodes.  These keymaps
> > seem to be buggy and incomplete at times.  So, to tackle the issue once
> > for all, I've written a tool to generate those maps from xkb keyboard
> > layout data using libxkbcommon.
> > 
> > This patch series only adds the tool, it doesn't touch the maps in
> > pc-bios/keymaps/ yet.  I want some testing feedback first ...
> 
> Hmm, we recently split out the keymap database and code for generating
> lookup tables (that was duplicated across spice-gtk, gtk-vnc, and libvirt)
> into a shared git sub-module
> 
>   https://gitlab.com/keycodemap/keycodemapdb/
> 
> some other VNC clients were also switching to its use.
> 
> I was coincidentally working on a patch to get QEMU to use this too,
> so all projects are aligned on the same data maps and thus share fixes
> in this area.
> 
> IMHO that'd be preferable than doing something custom in QEMU only.

Oh actually ignore that - we're talking about different areas of
keymapping. The stuff I was doing was primarily targetted as the
SDL / GTK frontends in QEMU which must convert from X/GTK key
maps to QEMU's XT keycodes, where as you were talking about the
VNC keymaps when not using the QEMU scancode extension for VNC.
So they're complementary, not mutually exclusive.


Regards,
Daniel
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