On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 20:08 +0200, Marvin Raaijmakers wrote: > Read the message in the front page of the keyTouch website and you will > find out why. And I advise you to try to use keyTouch. > BTW Lineak supports 90 keyboard models, but many keyboard models in the > list of Lineak are the same. Because keytouch-editor (the application > for creating keyboard files) asks the user to send the created keyboard > file to me, I receive a lot of keyboard files from the users. At the > moment I have 68 unread messages containing keyboard files in my > mailbox. > I have also written a patch to improve the USB keyboard drivers. This > patch will be included in the Linux kernel. As soon as the patch is > included I will write a new version of keyTouch that will make it > possible to get all the extra function keys of USB keyboards working > (just like I did with the other types of keyboards). >
I did read it. I don't entirely agree with it. I have yet to find a keyboard I where I can't get all the keys working under lineak, including funky things like the mx 3100 combo where the extended keys come through the mouse's event interface. The only thing I see that keytouch might have over lineak is acpi key presses. But that's what I use acpid for. Anyway, use what you want. I'm sticking with lineak, which works well for me on all the systems I set it up on. I especially like the ability to have the correct key combinations sent to my different multimedia apps for things like next/previous, etc. I don't see that in keytouch. And without it, I don't see what use keytouch is for anything other than very basic configurations. Finally, the lineak that I'm running supports 356 different keyboard models, not the 90 you claim, and I haven't even updated to the current version. I'm about 3 months behind. -- Thank you for supporting me in the Livestrong Challenge! Please make your tax deductible donation at http://www.livestrongchallenge.org/06TX/roberthughes -- laptop-testing-team mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/laptop-testing-team
