On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 13:19 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 17:32 +0200, Robert M. Albrecht wrote:
>
> >> - enhancing the gui for extended keyboards
>
> Most keyboards and laptop do have extra keys fort starting applications
> or changing the speaker-volume.
>
> Getting them to work is, in my opinion, non-obvious and sure to
> complicated to an average user.
>
100% agreed. However, additional gui is not necessary the right answer
for that. There is currently a discussion on the hal mailing list on how
to best make those keys work.
Not quite. The keys talked about on the HAL mailing-list don't even show
up in X, or at the input layer. They just don't exist at the kernel
level.
The keys that show up without a keysym at the X level (the ones with
0x... in the control-center capplet) need keymaps, or GTK+ understanding
X keycodes.