There is no FastForward complement for XF86XK_AudioRewind I suggest XF86XK_AudioFastForward. I would also suggest that the "audio" symbols are renamed to "media" as rewind/fastforward could just as well be used for video.
Functional keysyms for multimedia keyboards generally need to be reviewied and need to be added to Appendix A of the X11 protocol standard. I hope to get around to doing something on this by X11R7.1.
Assigning bu to myself
It's not only multimedia keyboards. When I submited this I was trying to configure a remote (ati_remote) for a HTPC. I though I'd mention it, didn't know if it's important. How do theese keysyms relate to the USB HID standard?
The USB HID Usage Tables at http://www.usb.org/developers/hidpage/ contain a large number of identifiers for very specialized "controls", ranging from "deactivate autopilot" and "release chaff" for a military flight simulator to "snooze" and "am/pm" for an alarm clock. Many of these controls to not relate to keycaps, but to potentiometer angles or positions. There is no easy and obvious mapping between all these controls and keysyms. In addition, the USB HID Usage Tables just give a short English name to a control, and do not even specify a graphical keyboard symbol. It is at present not clear to me, how useful a reference the USB HID usage tables will be for adding new multimedia keysyms to the X11 standard, but it should certainly be consulted to align the terminology used. Another possibly useful reference are standards for symbols used on equipment, such as IEC 60417 and ISO 7000. These cover most of the graphical symbols for function buttons that you might find on a tape recorder, TV remote control, photo copier, dishwasher, washing mashine, car user interface, etc. and assign numbers to them. Perhaps these should simply be mapped en-bloc into the keysym space? For example, your fast forward button is symbol number 5108 (defilement rapide; fast run, fast speed) in IEC 60417, and variant B of this symbol looks like two black right-pointing triangles next to each other. However, these standards are a bit older and would only cover symbols found in equipment up to the mid 1990s. They do not (yet) have symbols for "My documents", "Email", "Homepage", "Instant Messager" and other keys that Microsoft blesses new keyboard with.
Sorry about the phenomenal bug spam, guys. Adding xorg-team@ to the QA contact so bugs don't get lost in future.
commit 1cf41088ff751e60071a519466b5a51b65c7626a Author: Bastien Nocera <bnocera@redhat.com> Date: Wed Oct 15 14:20:45 2008 +1030 Keysyms needed for some HID remote controls to work under X. #16519 In particular, this enables Sony Ericsson phones and PS3 BD remotes. X.Org Bug 16519 <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16519> Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@redhat.com> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 16519 ***
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