Re: Reloading keymap under DirectFB

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 11:35 +0200, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:

> With the DFB backend i recently experienced the need to force reload of 
> keymap and i did it by calling directly a DFB function from my GTK app code.
> Mike Emmel suggested to add something like gdk_directfb_reload_keymap() 
> to the GDKDFB backend, as this seems to be a generic problem.
> Any suggestion about other ways keymap reloading could be done?

Why is reloading the keymap needed in the first place? I suggest that
this is fixed in DirectFB instead of adding an API for the sole purpose
of working around what appears to be a bug in DirectFB.


Sven