I was thinking tonigh about this topic, and here are a couple thought I would like to share
E is almost completelly focused to GUI and thanks to edje (if I remember well), the EFL stuff can receive mouse events Based on this, why don't we add 'graphical' things that control/show ACPI events? Examples: * You want to manually start the fan? click on the fan icon (one that looks static) and it will start spinning (or look like a spinning fan, to save some resources) * WIFI kill switch? we can draw a swtich (like the one in elementary toolkit) or an antenna with 'waves' (or something cool enough) if the antenna is on What I mean is, moving from an 'all buttons' or 'all swithces' to an ACPI graphical panel control. I know that current EFL allow this kind of stuff. From what Raster said before, E' core also allows this. All it would take is time (duh!) 2011/5/12 Michael Jennings <m...@kainx.org> > On Thursday, 12 May 2011, at 09:03:16 (+0900), > Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > > grandma :) could call it "hardware buttons". frankly.. i think that acpi > is > > abused/misused in so many ways by hw vendors. if its a button like a > key.. it > > should be a key. always. wired up to the kbd controller with a keycode. > there > > should be another CLASS of switch that is on/off - like lid open state, > "flight > > mode wifi switch" on some laptops is a sliding on/off switch that > physically > > retains its state (its not a soft-toggle). imho even the power and reset > > buttons should be keys (just with a bonus hold power for 8secs+ and > machine > > hard powers down feature). > > How about "Hardware Controls?" Just calling it "Buttons" is even > worse than "ACPI," not because Grandma won't know what it means, but > rather because Grandma won't know to which meaning of "Buttons" it > refers. It's too broad/general. Mouse buttons? Toolbar buttons? > Menubar buttons? Whatever interpretation comes to Grandma's mind > first, it's unlikely to be "power buttons, Fn+Function keys, and lid > closures." :-) > > Michael > > -- > Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <m...@kainx.org> > Linux Server/Cluster Admin, LBL.gov Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > "That's who I am. I'm a positive person." "No, *I'm* a positive > person. *You* are like Santa Claus on Prozac...at Disneyland... > getting laid!" -- Alec Baldwin and Lisa Kudrow, "Friends" > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability > What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. > Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools > to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-users mailing list > enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > -- Wido ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
