Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 4/7] ui: add multimedia keys

[Gerd Hoffmann]

  Hi,

> > > Missing Q_KEY_CODE_MEDIASELECT entry - presumably it was supposed
> > > to map to  KEY_MEDIA
> > 
> > There is KEY_SELECT too, but not KEY_MEDIASELECT.  Hmm.
> 
> I found a keyboard with a key labelled "Media"  and when pressed
> it generates Linux key 171  / AT set1  0xe0 0x01 which is KEY_CONFIG
> and GNOME pops up the control panel when pressed !

Oh joy!

I guess we should just leave that unmapped for 2.10 and sort it later
when switching to keycodemapdb ...

> Would be interested to know results of "showkey" and "showkey -s" for
> any other keyboards with a key labelled "Media", since I don't
> entirely
> trust this particular one to be representative of general usage.

I don't have any.   Seems those multimedia keyboards with lots of extra
keys are out-of-fashion these days, with only a few keys (like volume)
still being in use.

cheers,
  Gerd