Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 5/5] keymap: consider modifier state when picking a mapping

[Gerd Hoffmann]

  Hi,
 
> > This is quite horrible though. I'm more inclined
> > to revert this patch and find another way to fix the original problem
> > which won't require the UI frontends to track modifier state.
> 
> The UIs track modifier state anyway.
> 
> I fact I have some WIP patches to add a generic keyboard state tracker,
> so the UIs can use common code instead of having their own state
> tracking code each.  Also to make UI hotkeys configurable, consistent
> across all UIs we have.  Guess I should undust them, at least the state
> tracking part of it.
> 
> With that in place we can easily pass the full keyboard state to the
> keymap code.

Tried that:
  https://git.kraxel.org/cgit/qemu/log/?h=sirius/kbd-state

Not polished yet.

cheers,
  Gerd