Standard for configuring extra function keys

[Marvin Raaijmakers]

Well, I try to make keytouch as desktop independent as possible. For
example it uses konqueror under KDE and nautilus under GNOME as the
filemanager. I didn't know there was an infrastructure for starting the
preferred browser, but I would really like to use it (where can I find
information about it).
Maybe you are about point 2, but would it not be great if the desktop
environments share the configuration?

- Marvin Raaijmakers

On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 02:17 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 12:21:21PM +0100, Marvin Raaijmakers wrote:
> > Please read: http://keytouch.sourceforge.net/desktopenv_cooperate.html
> > More information about keytouch can be found at: http://keytouch.sf.net
> 
> You seem to be trying to solve two problems in one piece of code:
> 
> 1) Mapping physical scancodes to Linux keycodes
> 2) Mapping Linux keycodes to session events
> 
> The first of these is certainly a cross-desktop issue, and I think the 
> only sensible solution is to ensure that X keysyms are consistent 
> everywhere. In the Linux case, the easiest way to ensure that is to 
> make sure that, wherever possible, the physical scancodes are mapped to 
> the logical keycodes as described in include/linux/input.h.
> 
> However, (2) would appear to be heavily desktop dependent. For instance, 
> Gnome already has infrastructure to handle the volume being changed. 
> Keytouch appears to tie it to aumix. There's infrastructure for starting 
> the preferred web browser. Keytouch doesn't seem to use that.
> 
> I think Keytouch would be far better off sticking to (1), and leaving 
> (2) up to the desktops. As long as they work at the X keysym level, no 
> configuration is required.
> 
> As a suggestion - for laptops, you can use the DMI information to 
> automatically detect which keymap you need. Check the hotkey-setup 
> package in Debian or Ubuntu.
> 
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