Op Thu, 19 Jul 2007, schreef Bodo Eggert:
> Daniël Mantione <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Op Thu, 19 Jul 2007, schreef Dmitry Torokhov:
> >> On 7/14/07, Daniel Mantione <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > To make this discussion productive, I want to work towards a solution. I
> > don't mind how I can make the keyboard work as it should, I just want it
> > work. Think of the needs of a user interface, you walk through controls
> > using tab and shift+tab, put common commands under the function keys and
> > shift/control/alt combinations. Cursor control in an editor is done with
> > the navigation pad on your keyboard: arrows, home/end/pgup/pgdown, plus
> > shift/control/alt combinations with them.
> >
> > That is all, nothing fancy. Could the kernel support a way to do this?
>
> It could, but nobody had the idea of combining a cooked mode and a raw mode
> like DOS provides. OK, DOS did not do a good job, you had to peek the shift
> status separately, but you had the assigned character as well as the
> (translated) scancode. IIRC, X11 does the same, but with the scancodes
> (and the mouse coordinates?) included.
Well, let's go for it then. Where to start?
Greetings,
Daniël Mantione
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