[PATCH libX11 0/4] Overhaul makekeys.c

[Alan Coopersmith]

Daniel Stone wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've attached a patchset which cleans up makekeys.c to handle vendor
> keysyms from XF86keysym.h, Sunkeysym.h, DECkeysym.h and HPkeysym.h as
> well as just the core ones from keysymdef.h as well.  This means that we
> can get rid of XKeySymDB, which saves us a great deal of frustration and
> drama in remembering to keep it in sync, as well as the time and memory
> expended in loading and parsing it.

This allows users/distros to provide a custom XKeysymDB if they want to
add keys, just no longer distributes/requires one from us upstream, right?
(Not that we should encourage that, but I'm sure there are those out there
 who have done this, especially for embedded systems adding custom keysyms
 for their specific device.)

> This was sponsored by Nokia/Collabora as part of the xkbcommon/make
> xkbcomp not show up as a huge black mark in the bootchart work.

Thank them for us.

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Reviewed-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com>

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