NumLock mapping and KeyPad mode for VT420 emulation

[Roland Hughes]

I guess this is really a "feature request" since it has been hanging out there for a long time.

NumLock isn't correctly handled by konsole. When NumLock has been mapped via keyboard mapping, like it should be in the VT420 keyboard mapping, konsole must cease eating it as an "application mode toggle key". All of the mechanics are now in the environment to map NumLock to \EOP in the VT420 keypad layout. What is missing is the ability to tell konsole that it must use a different key to toggle the keypad from numeric to application mode. Indeed, when you are connected to an actual OpenVMS system (what the VT series terminals where actually created to work with) the OS sends the escape sequence to do the switching, it cannot be done at the keyboard level. konsole correctly consumes this escape sequence, but it doesn't have any logic inside of it to say "if NumLock mapped don't use for toggle"

It would seem a reasonable solution to have that portion of the application which loads the keyboard map set a flag indicating the NumLock key has been mapped. At whatever place in the code where it checks for NumLock key to do the toggle it should toggle only if NumLock and !NumLockMapped

Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release: 9.10

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Hi there!

Thanks for reporting this bug! Your bug seems to be a problem with the KDE program itself, and not with our KDE packages. While we appreciate your issue, it would be better if it was tracked at https://bugs.kde.org, so that the KDE developers can deal with this speedily and have direct communication with you as the reporter for more effective debugging.

Thanks!

[Roland Hughes (original-seasoned-geek)]

Then bubble it up, don't just flag it invalid to get it off your plate.

On Saturday, July 17, 2010 01:55:54 pm you wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> Thanks for reporting this bug! Your bug seems to be a problem with the
> KDE program itself, and not with our KDE packages. While we appreciate
> your issue, it would be better if it was tracked at
> https://bugs.kde.org, so that the KDE developers can deal with this
> speedily and have direct communication with you as the reporter for more
> effective debugging.
>
> Thanks!
>
> ** Changed in: kdebase (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Invalid

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