From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexey Gladkov Subject: Re: VT console need rewrite Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 04:55:39 +0300 Message-ID: <4CF3081B.9090307@gmail.com> References: <1290941875.13526.15.camel@cai.gentoo> <73BC440E-833E-4E1B-ACCC-5D68BAB89D83@mit.edu> <1290951770.13526.18.camel@cai.gentoo> <20101129020610.7ea7c79e.lisa@ltmnet.com> <1290961207.13526.31.camel@cai.gentoo> <20101128194624.GP2767@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20101128194624.GP2767@thunk.org> Sender: linux-console-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" To: Ted Ts'o , Microcai , Lisa Milne , "jonsmirl@gmail.com" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-console@v 28.11.2010 22:46, Ted Ts'o wrote: > How many people do regular login, development, reading e-mail, etc., > on the console? Very few! Once I broke the euro symbol in the kbd keymaps and got a kick in the ass very quickly :). It means that users continue to use the console quite active. Another example: I keep getting a new keymaps and console fonts for each new kbd release. Maybe not a lot of console users, but more of them than you think. > If the answer is because you hate X, as > you've already pointed out, we already have fbterm. Where is it > written that we need to have a full unicode-capable console system? fbterm =E2=80=8Ecan't help in all cases. For example: we have a limitat= ion NR_KEYS, which makes it impossible to use keycode > 256 in keymaps. I've already received several complaints about it. --=20 Rgrds, legion -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-console= " in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html