Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote: >> A similar mechanism was provided using hal/libhal on Linux, and there was >> quite >> a bit of traffic on the hal aliases at freedesktop.org to create patches for >> such keys from people who had unsupported laptops. > > In many cases, the keys are just "keyboard keys" and they should be > handled through the keyboard driver. > > In other cases, they are all "ACPI" events. > > I would like those to be presented as keyboard keys; and then you can > easily use GNOME something or other to bind an event to the key press. > (It's not entirely clear to me why you can't bind one event to multiple > keys)
Totally agree, but I believe (but could be mistaken) that the issue is that different laptops will generate different ACPI events - so the mapping from ACPI event to X event isn't consistent, and I think that this is where we would need a text document to allow people to do this mapping in the field.... Thanks, Darren.
