Re: Physical keyboard events

[Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>]

Cecilio Pardo <cpardo@imayhem.com> writes:

> The intention right now is just to allow users to bind actions to
> multiple taps on shift, control and alt keys. Using these keys and not
> others is just because these keys don't normally do anything when
> pressed alone, not because they are modifiers. If an users'
> customization or his input method(s) makes this unconvenient or
> impossible, then this is not for that user, and should not use it.

My point is that users frequently customize or exchange the positions of
these modifier keys, and it is the resultant modifiers that they expect
Emacs to report, not the keysyms, in special events or elsewhere.

> Is this feature worth the changes I propose. For me it is.

Well, for us that is contingent on whether they are implemented
properly.  A feature that is adequate for half of our users, will
confuse many of them, or with the sacrifices entailed by GTK, does not
measure up to this standard, alas.