Re: GDK deprecations

[Oskar Liljeblad <osk hem passagen se>]

On Sunday, February 18, 2001 at 11:59, Owen Taylor wrote:
>  
> > > (Evil - just remove?)
> > >  gdk_key_repeat_disable
> > >  gdk_key_repeat_restore
> > 
> > Ye gods.  What on earth uses these?
> 
> Presumably nothing, since they turn off the key repeat gobally!
> 
> But turning off key repeat is useful for things like games.
> 
> It's possible, with Xkb, for a single application to request
> detectable keyrepeat - so you get press,press,press,release,
> instead of press,release,press,release,press,release.

If the Xkb extensions are used in GLib, will it be possible
to distinguish an "initial press" and "keyboard-repeat-generated"?
I.e. press,press-held*N,release instead of press*M,release.

Oskar Liljeblad (osk hem passagen se)