Hello, su, 2008-09-07 kello 20:01 +0200, Wouter Stomp kirjoitti: > On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Otto Kekäläinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I noticed that the IR remote control support in current Linux > > applications suck. Actually fixing the matter is quite easy, so I > > drafted a spec and a plan how to go about it: > > > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Specs/IRRemoteControlSupport > > > > Comments? > > > > Fedora just implemented this for their upcoming release. You can > probably reuse most of their work. > > See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/BetterLIRCSupport > > And perhaps there could even be a feature freeze exception to include > gnome-lirc-properties in intrepid? It seems really useful.
Thanks for a quick reply! However I think you missed my point. My suggestion was to skip lirc completely - the applications can support special key codes directly, since the key codes come from the Linux input layer. There wouldn't be _any_ need for configuration. Just plug in the input device (which does not even need to be a remote - also multimedia keyboards and multimedia mouses work) and press the buttons to get playing. The most elegant solution would be to support these key codes out-of-the-box with most media applications, since they won't cause any overhead or conflicts with any normal keyboards / input devices. Then the lirc specific stuff could be in lirc plugins for non input-device-users. BTW, I've tried the Gnome-lirc-properties app a few day ago, and at least on my computer it refuses to recognize my remote control and insists to use my mouse (event4) as the input device (and I can't manually force it to use /dev/input/event6). Also there is no need to select what remote to use, since the driver already puts out the correct button actions (key codes) through linux-input-device. Selecting the device would be enough. However I wouldn't want to select just one device - I want all of my devices to work (keyboard, mouse, remote). No matter how I look at this, the best solution would be to skip lirc and support the special key codes in the applications directly. -- | Otto Kekäläinen | http://www.sange.fi/ -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
