Re: Device capabilities / platform status service

2013-06-02 Thread Ivan Čukić
.. or it could be a library rather than a service? Honestly, a library (khm khm solid) would be imo the right target. First, we can make it as a separate one, and then merge into solid when we are satisfied by it, and when kf5/solid is deemed stable. screen resolution is already handled by

Re: Device capabilities / platform status service

2013-06-02 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Sunday, June 2, 2013 10:57:44 Ivan Čukić wrote: screen resolution is already handled by other means. the only use case i can actually think for any of the things listed is the keyboard: if there is a hardware keyboard, don't show the on-screen software keyboard. How so? If we have a

Device capabilities / platform status service

2013-06-01 Thread Ivan Čukić
Hi all, For the shell switching / capabilities-based component loading, we'll need to have the system to get the capabilities of UI devices (obviously :) ). The service (guessing org.kde.platformstatus will fit this purpose) will need to be able to: - get the keyboard, attached/detached

Re: Device capabilities / platform status service

2013-06-01 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Saturday, June 1, 2013 19:27:16 Ivan Čukić wrote: Hi all, For the shell switching / capabilities-based component loading, we'll need to have the system to get the capabilities of UI devices (obviously :) ). The service (guessing org.kde.platformstatus will fit this purpose) will need