doc: improve the description of the consumed modifier modes

Hopefully it is more understandable now.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104768

Reported-by: Gatis Paeglis <gatis.paeglis@qt.io>
Signed-off-by: Ran Benita <ran234@gmail.com>
master
Ran Benita 2018-01-26 13:09:39 +02:00
parent 767fa86d42
commit 740c66885f
1 changed files with 10 additions and 9 deletions

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@ -1703,7 +1703,7 @@ enum xkb_consumed_mode {
/**
* This is the mode defined in the XKB specification and used by libX11.
*
* A modifier is consumed iff it *may affect* key translation.
* A modifier is consumed if and only if it *may affect* key translation.
*
* For example, if `Control+Alt+<Backspace>` produces some assigned keysym,
* then when pressing just `<Backspace>`, `Control` and `Alt` are consumed,
@ -1714,16 +1714,17 @@ enum xkb_consumed_mode {
/**
* This is the mode used by the GTK+ toolkit.
*
* The mode consists of the following two heuristics:
* The mode consists of the following two independent heuristics:
*
* - The active set of modifiers, excluding modifiers which do not affect
* the key (as described above), are considered consumed, if they result
* in different keysyms being produced than when no modifiers are active.
*
* - Additionally, a single modifier is considered consumed if, were it the
* only active modifier affecting the key (as described above), it would
* result in different keysyms being produced than when no modifiers are
* - The currently active set of modifiers, excluding modifiers which do
* not affect the key (as described for @ref XKB_CONSUMED_MODE_XKB), are
* considered consumed, if the keysyms produced when all of them are
* active are different from the keysyms produced when no modifiers are
* active.
*
* - A single modifier is considered consumed if the keysyms produced for
* the key when it is the only active modifier are different from the
* keysyms produced when no modifiers are active.
*/
XKB_CONSUMED_MODE_GTK
};