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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ui: drop altgr and altgr_r QKeyCodes


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ui: drop altgr and altgr_r QKeyCodes
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 06:34:55 -0500
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On 07/27/2017 05:47 AM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> The right alt key (alt_r aka KEY_RIGHTALT) is used for AltGr.
> The altgr and altgr_r keys simply don't exist.  Drop them.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden>
> ---

> +++ b/qapi-schema.json
> @@ -4863,13 +4863,14 @@
>  # @ac_stop: since 2.10
>  # @ac_refresh: since 2.10
>  # @ac_bookmarks: since 2.10
> +# altgr, altgr_r: dropped in 2.10
>  #

Dropping members is unusual; it may break unsuspecting clients relying
on the names - but the argument is that the keys don't exist, so no one
can have been relying on the name to do anything meaningful.

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>

and worth inclusion in 2.10

-- 
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.           +1-919-301-3266
Virtualization:  qemu.org | libvirt.org

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