Bug 29950

Summary: Key definitions don't propagate to higher levels
Product: xorg Reporter: Rimas Kudelis <rq>
Component: Server/Input/XKBAssignee: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status: RESOLVED MOVED QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium CC: svu
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 29964    

Description Rimas Kudelis 2010-09-01 14:06:58 UTC
A definition like this one:

partial
xkb_symbols "level3" {
  key <SPCE> {
    type[Group1]="FOUR_LEVEL",
    symbols[Group1]= [ space, space, nobreakspace ]
  };
};


results in <SPCE> key not having any simbol in the 4th level instead of inheriting that symbol from the 3rd level.

Excerpt from IRC:
svu: Actually, after translation (using setxkbmap and xkbcomp), I am getting the following
svu:     key <SPCE> {
svu:         type= "FOUR_LEVEL",
svu:         symbols[Group1]= [ space, space, nobreakspace, NoSymbol ]
svu:     };
Comment 1 Rimas Kudelis 2010-09-02 02:35:40 UTC
Note: it should also be possible to only override certain levels of keys without touching other level definitions. For example, eurosign(e) should only change the third level of E key to output € symbol, but leave other levels untouched (if they were already defined).

If we have to choose between possibility to change the definition of only one level like that and the possibility to inherit from a previous level, I'd choose the ability to override only one level, because we could still easily adjust the definition of nbsp(level3) to explicitly output nobreakspace in both L3 and L4 in that case.
Comment 2 GitLab Migration User 2018-12-13 18:38:00 UTC
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