HAL, and laptop Fn and hardware keys

[David Zeuthen]

On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 10:34 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > A point raised on irc and which may be of interest is that afik some of
> > the keys are hardwired to the HW while others go through the OS: this
> > means that events fired in reponse to the first will cause a change
> > (e.g. VGA out) no matter of which policy is configured by the program
> > who listens to the d-bus event while the second kind of Fn keys can be
> > configured to trigger arbitary actions. I think that this distintion
> > should be made clear.
> 
> Sure, on toshiba the only button that is tied to h/w for me is Fn-F5,
> which we can blacklist. I'm sure the other buttons on other makes (e.g.
> Bluetooth disable on IBM) can be treated the same.

Yes, I think that keys like this, that is tied to h/w and doesn't need
OS interaction, should simply be ignored by HAL.

    David