Re: [gdm-list] Pairing bluetooth input devices before logging in?

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 09:58 -0400, William Jon McCann wrote:
> On 8/17/07, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 18:18 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 19:20 +0200, Mourad De Clerck wrote:
> > <snip>
> > > > How does that sound?
> > >
> > > Sounds good.
> >
> > I filed:
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=467657
> > and
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=467658
> >
> > which make sense even in the non-Bluetooth use cases.
> 
> Thanks Bastien.  Sounds good to me.
> 
> I suppose there is also another case too: when neither keyboard and
> mouse are available and touchscreen-mode [1] is on.  We should

I believe this would actually show up as an input device, and I think
tagging devices as "tablets" has been added to HAL recently.

> probably display an onscreen keyboard.  Perhaps something like this:
> http://live.gnome.org/GnomeScreensaver/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#head-5196776d04ed41242da63723d837fa188d57693a

Exactly, although we'd probably need to bundle one by default, or use
GOK...

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Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>