Extra function keys/ hotkeys

[Richard Hughes]

On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 14:09 +0200, Marvin Raaijmakers wrote:
> Like I wrote a time ago, I think keyTouch (http://keytouch.sf.net/) will
> be a very usefull for Ubuntu on laptops to get the extra function keys
> (or hotkeys as they are called by you) working. Not only for laptops but
> also for desktops with keyboards that have extra function keys.
> KeyTouch does the setkeycodes stuff, has its own key grabbing deamon a
> nice GUI for configuring the actions and does also support ACPI hotkeys.
> It currently supports 79 different keyboard/laptop models.
> Even if the Ubuntu laptop testing team isn't interested in using
> keyTouch for the hotkeys problem, information about the laptop keys
> might still be interesting. KeyTouch has for each laptop/keyboard model
> a keyboard file that contains information about the extra function keys.
> See the keyTouch website for more information about keyTouch, the
> keyboard files and find out how easy keyboard files are made by using
> keyTouch-editor.

Why not just integrate this with HAL (like I did for the random ACPI
Toshiba keys addon) so you can use fdi files to match against hardware,
and launch probers and addons for the different hardware types.

Using HAL abstracts things nicely in my opinion.

Richard.