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

[Kurt Hindenburg]

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Jekyll Wu <adaptee at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is another KDE3 feature missing in KDE4 konsole. See
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.**cgi?id=172271<https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172271>
>
> And here is the commit that removed the broken(?) implementation
>
> commit cee0ce539b23b76eac5a582540b22f**70ba0a2f74
> 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.
>
> Hello,
  None of my keyboards even have a 'Scroll Lock'.  I would agree that
unless it is trivial to implement we need not.  How much old code is there
that could be removed?
   Kurt
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