James "Doc" Livingston wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 18:09 +0100, Peter wrote:
>> I could make one for Rhythmbox - but it looks like it would be much 
>> easier to use if Rhythmbox supported global keyboard shortcuts 
>> (otherwise the remote control would only work if rhythmbox was the 
>> active window).
>>
>> Is global keyboard shortcuts something you have planned?  Possibly as a 
>> plugin?  (I did search, but didn't see a bug for global keyboard shortcuts).
> 
> We already support X's "media" keys, XF86MediaNext and the like. If your
> keyboard settings are set up correctly, you should be able to press the
> "next" and "previous" keys on your keyboard (assuming of course you have
> a keyboard with them) and control RB.

I'll try it with a real USB keyboard later...

> 
> To me it would make much more sense to synthesise those key events.
> 

Agreed - but unless I've missed something that doesn't look to be 
possible with the current Sony Ericsson Human Interface Device (HID) 
over bluetooth support.

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/input/w2kbd.mspx#E1C

 From that document, it looks like most USB keyboards with multimedia 
keys implement them using the HIG "consumer usage page" (Page 0x0C).

http://developer.sonyericsson.com/getDocument.do?docId=66147 [PDF]

The SE mobile phones only imitates USB HIG usage pages for:
* Generic desktop page (0x01), for mouse functions
* Keyboard/Keypad (0x07)

See also USB HID Usage Tables v1.11 document:

http://www.usb.org/developers/devclass_docs/Hut1_11.pdf

I may have missed something, all these USB details are new to me.

Peter

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