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WIP: protocol: introduce logical keyboards

Sebastian Wick requested to merge swick/wayland:logical_keyboard into main

The current wl_keyboard has a single stream of events with exactly one active keymap. This is creating problems for a bunch of use cases:

  • per-keyboard keymap weston#347
  • keymap for virtual keyboards wayland-protocols!11
  • local multiplayer games with players on different physical keyboards
  • …

This MR introduces logical keyboards which are just events with an ID grouping further key, modifiers and keymap events to that ID.

Marked as WIP because this is a rather radical change in how keyboards are working and it requires a POC compositor and client. (working on patches for weston but the changes are not trivial.)

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