[haiku-development] Re: Emergency keyboard shortcut handler

  • From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:45:21 +0200

On 2008-06-28 at 18:39:45 [+0200], André Braga <meianoite@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 10:20, Michael Lotz <mmlr@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Is there any reason why this couldn't be moved into the input_server?
> 
> Of course there is! He wanted you guys to review his patch and see if
> you'd be interested in it at all :) So he implemented it in a way that
> could be easily disabled and debugged before mucking with the bowels
> of input_server :)

I would settle for the more obvious reason that having this functionality 
in the input server makes it rely on a working input server, while in the 
kernel it will always work. Sounds like a reasonable approach for an 
"emergency" feature.

CU, Ingo

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