Vincent Meyer, MD posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Thu, 06 Nov 2003 00:30:23 -0500:
> Loaded a bunch of kde updates, and there was a new icon in the kicker tray > - IRKicker. Looks like some kind of IR remote control thingie. Hmm.. > Right click and select to configure, and nothing happens. Right click, go > to help, ask helpcenter for the irkick handbook.. not found. Brings up > the help center, but no info on the app. I can't confirm this since there's little reason in my updating to the latest Cooker right now given that I'll be installing amd64 versions in the next few days (my dual Opteron hardware upgrade is scheduled to arrive later today, YEA!!), but I'm guessing that's part of the new KDE 3.2 betas Laurent has been putting out. If so, it's quite likely there IS no documentation for any new functionality, yet. I remember this was the case with early betas of 3.0 and 3.1.. However, given your description, it sounds indeed like an IR tray applet, likely pretty similar to the MSWormOS idea that's been around since W98, anyway, IIRC. I've always run desktop systems (laptops are in general to expensive and not upgradable enough for my buck), but I've seen the applet on friend's laptops. Basically, all it is is a visual display of the status of the IR serial port. When an IR printer or other such IR enabled device comes within range and a link is established, the MSWormOS tray applet normally plays a sound, and changes the icon to show two devices with a beam between them. When the link is broken, another sound, and it goes back to the single port beaming IR icon. There's little interactivity, except that IIRC right clicking on it brings up a configure option which would be the same properties display for IR available from the control panel applet. My guess on the KDE implementation is that they will have something similar, but at this point, the kcontrol IR applet isn't available or isn't configured right (someone reported they had no kcontrol entries at all, with one of the first Mdk beta versions!!), so the functionality isn't there and choosing that option does nothing, as you described. However, if you've a laptop and something suitable for communication with it via IR, you can probably test the link notifier functionality, and see if I'm right on that. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
