[patch] add keymap data to make random laptop vendor keys work

Bastien Nocera hadess at hadess.net
Fri May 4 07:53:17 PDT 2007


On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 15:51 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 23:58 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > 
> > > Sure, this assumes the keys are mapped. I don't see this as a big
> > > problem.
> > 
> > Well, that means that it would kill the idea David had of having a
> > graphical application to do it. 
> 
> What about the following:
> http://live.gnome.org/GnomePowerManager/AddingKeymapData
> 
> i.e. not something a newbie could do, but someone who is half competent
> and knows what a terminal is should be able to cope.
> 
> If it's crack, tell me so. :-)

Looks good to me, apart from two things:
- I still don't like the users having to match KEY_BLAH with some random
number
- Don't tell the users to please share it, just tell them to send it to
a specified list.

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Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net> 



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