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    replace bespoke xkb geometry parser with xkb · c7a1f606
    Harald Sitter authored
    Summary:
    the bespoke parser was a horrendous drain on the build time of
    plasma-desktop due to recursive templates.
    it's been replaced with a new standalone binary that previews any
    model/layout/variant/options combination as requested and a qtquick UI
    which simplifies the actual rendering substantially.
    
    the new code is better in that it:
    - builds in a fraction of the time with a fraction of the power use
    - renders complex models (such as the tm2020 or the kinesis) correctly
    - because it entirely relies on xkb to figure out keysyms belonging to
      a given key, it's layout representation is not only substantially more
      complete it also correctly obeys options like eurosign:2
    - renders numlock and the like (not that this is in fact very useful ^^)
    - is following the system palette for coloring
    - the paint code should be easier to graps and more robust because xkb
      provides completely consistent geometry and layout data meaning we can
      model this verbatim in qtq...
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