On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 11:42 +0200, Frederic Crozat wrote: > Le vendredi 16 septembre 2005 à 11:10 +0200, Christian Fredrik Kalager > Schaller a écrit : > > Hi Ross, > > You are overdesigning :) All the applet would need to do is send out the > > same X keycodes that multimedia keys on laptops and modern keyboards do > > and you are set (as all apps important applications support those). > > > > Adam, why don't you get Frederic to hack on this, it shouldn't be more > > than maybe a days worth of hacking. > > /me slaps Uraeus :) > > We already did this since Mandriva LE 2005. We preconfigured a bunch of > multimedia keyboard in gnome-keybinding-properties for most common keys. > > Unfortunately, multimedia keyboard mapping is like hell : there are at > least 120 different multimedia keys specified in xorg file (more than > standard keys) and almost each keyboard vendor is using a different key. > > We have pre-configured GNOME keybinding for actions which are already > available with most commonly used keycode, but the work should be done > in x.org, to rationalise keycode. Hey, someone else who isn't reading my emails :P Fred, my original suggestion was a panel applet to remote control media players (to unify panel-based remote control, remove duplicated code, simplify the interface and give users more control over whether they _need_ panel remote control at all, and if so, where it lives). Christian was suggesting that, since we already have a framework to allow multimedia keys to remote control media players, we could simply hijack that for a panel applet rather than writing a whole new way to do it. AFAIK, we don't have drakremotecontrol yet. :) -- adamw
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