Plans for the desktop beyond Fedora 7

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le mardi 08 mai 2007 à 13:20 -0400, Adam Jackson a écrit :
> On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 19:40 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > Le mardi 08 mai 2007 à 13:03 -0400, Adam Jackson a écrit :
> > > On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 17:18 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > 
> > > > Go to the keyboard shortcuts, assign keys, it works. And if it doesn't,
> > > > it's a bug somewhere, and you should file a bug.
> > > 
> > > What would be even cooler is "You just pressed a key I don't know about.
> > > What do you want it to do?"
> > 
> > What would be even cooler is correct handling of those keyboards at the
> > driver level (thanksfully handling of HID devices is being reworked
> > right now http://marc.info/?l=linux-usb-devel&m=117670276527382&w=2 )
> 
> Reactive.  Adding new models will always take turnaround, vendors won't
> agree what keys should send what keysyms, blah blah.

It's a lot more standardised than you think, since MS apps rely on
standard MM keys. The only reason a lot of stuff does not work now is
there was no framework to declare enhanced keys at the kernel level/

> I mean, yes, wonderful work, but we still need to fix the enablement
> path of hardware we've never seen before.  "Poke all the weird keys on
> your keyboard, tell me what they mean, and then click here to submit
> upstream" sounds like a nice model.

We'll see how stuff works out. Not needing a userspace pile of
workarounds would be nice (pretend every mice is a MS one worked better
than expose all device-spocific alsa knobs to userspace)

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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