[Powerdevil] [Bug 366608] Brightness keyboard action does not repeat while key is pressed under Wayland

[Matthias Fauconneau via KDE Bugzilla]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=366608

--- Comment #5 from Matthias Fauconneau <matthias.fauconneau at gmail.com> ---
I think notifying release events would be a better solution since it would
allow smoother/finer brightness adjustments than the low rate of key
repeats.

So KWin/Wayland requires non-Qt applications to link with KGlobalAccel to
register shortcuts ?


On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 7:11 AM, Martin Gräßlin via KDE Bugzilla <
bugzilla_noreply at kde.org> wrote:

> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=366608
>
> --- Comment #4 from Martin Gräßlin <mgraesslin at kde.org> ---
> KGlobalAccel actions are only triggered on press events. There is no
> additional
> call when they are released.
>
> I played a little bit with my system and there the brightness key sends
> press/release combos constantly when being hold.
>
> > I think not repeating global shortcuts is the correct behaviour. Still
> it would make sense for PowerDevil to be notified when the shortcut is
> released.
>
> I'm not sure how we can combine those two. I either make it ignore repeat
> events or make it always trigger. To support this we would have to extend
> kglobalaccel to add a flag "allow repeat".
>
> > Also, where is the KGlobalAccel D-Bus interface documentation ?
>
> Nowhere, it's an internal detail of the KGlobalAccel framework and not a
> public
> and stable dbus interface.
>
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