[Konsole-devel] Question about the support for the "Scroll Lock" key

[Jekyll Wu]

This is another KDE3 feature missing in KDE4 konsole. See 
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172271

And here is the commit that removed the broken(?) implementation

commit cee0ce539b23b76eac5a582540b22f70ba0a2f74
Author: Robert Knight <robertknight at gmail.com>
Date:   4 years, 2 months ago

     Remove dead code, including the non-functional scroll lock code. 
Scroll lock support will be re-implemented in the termina
l display widget post KDE 4.0 if there is a demand for it.

Now the question is should we reimplement it?

I personally does not like to do it, bacause it seems to requires quite 
some code to implement it correctly. Also, a simple google searching of 
"Konsole scroll lock" suggests that feature was annoying to some users 
when it was there.

If the consensus is to not reimplement it again, I think we should clean 
up the left over code related with the "Scroll Lock" key in 
KeyboardTranslator, Vt102Emualtion, and XKB.


Regards
Jekyll