Re: [LinEAK-devel] Laptop hotkeys

[Tommi S. U. <tui...@cc...>]

Hello!

> Things I am currently thinking about are:
>
> 1. The keyboard configuration and the actions that should be invoked by 
> pressing the keys should be separated. The keys should be mapped to X11 
> keysyms and some user daemon or the desktop environment (like GNOME or KDE) 
> should care about invoking actions. I am aware that there are a lot of X 
> keysyms missing. May be they can get added to X.

This is basicly what I was thinking about a year ago. Check out this 
thread for my ideas:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=7831548&forum_id=9528

> 2. The hot keys should get part of the regular keyboard configuration.
> On the linux console this would need another config item in 
> /etc/sysconfig/keyboard and to extend init scripts. And the proper keymaps of 
> course.
>
> On X there are already some internet keyboards others would have to be added 
> to xkb/rules/base and xkb/symbols/inet. That way they would automatically 
> availabe in the regular config tools.

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=7577109&forum_id=9528

Kernel recognizes anyway the unknown scancodes, so there could be 'hotkey 
setup'-mode where user can press the hotkeys and they will be recognized, 
either known or unknown. In the latter case, a keycode would be also 
assigned to that key so that in future, kernel produces proper keycode for 
that key.


> I already tried to convert the lineak keyboard description to a more regular 
> form using X11 keysyms as basis. While this can be don for a large number of 
> keyboards it is a lot of work and not completely possible for some others.

How far did you progress? I haven't followed what happened to the keyboard 
descriptions in the 0.9 release. I remember Sheldon was talking something 
about standardizing the keynames.


Tommi