On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:10:06AM -0800, Kerry Shu wrote: > >Would it be possible to let users create their own set of hotkeys? Even > >if the hotkeys are burned into the HW, it'd be nice to be able to let > >the user input each one and assign a symbol to each. This would be a > >good workaround for lack of support for a specific laptop. > > Yes, it's possible to let users create their own set of hotkeys. That's > why our current design leverages Gnome shortcuts application. Uses can > define their own hotkeys(shortcuts) as usual. This project will make the > dedicated hotkeys also and always work.
One of us is missing something. Let's say I've a laptop A but no vendor support, so no ACPI driver that recognizes the ACPI hotkeys. In order to use the ACPI hotkeys then I'll have to: write a kernel module as if I were the vendor. But if I understand correctly the basic kernel ACPI driver can catch ACPI hotkeys -- it just doesn't know what to do with them. So I propose that you provide a *configurable* mapping of ACPI hotkey IDs to keyboard events. That way instead of having to write a kernel module for my unsupported laptop I need only write a little text file. Nico --
