XI2 = moving target?

[Maxim Levitsky]

On Sun, 2009-07-26 at 10:37 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 07:59:54PM +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 12:12 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote:
> > > For curiosity's sake, have people actually seen keyboards with more than 
> > > 248 keys?
> > 
> > No, but plenty with keycodes > 256
> > (Most TV remotes fail in this category, and I still am waiting for limit
> > of 256 keycodes to be lifted)
> 
> keycodes are 32 bit in XI2, though to get full support for that we also need
> XKB2. Right now, we still cap at keycodes > 255. this is an implementation
> issue though, not a protocol restriction.
> 
> Cheers,
>   Peter

Nice, and while at it, I have few questions:

1) will XKB2 allow 32 bit scancodes transparently for all Xlib
applicatuions, or at least for all Qt/GTK applications with small
modifications

2) When this will happen?


Best regards
	Maxim Levitsky