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 _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
