On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 00:17, James Cameron <qu...@laptop.org> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 01:35:34PM -0500, John Tierney wrote: >> Is it possible to take these functions from F1, F2, F3 and map >> these to special separate buttons? > > Yes. sugar.git/src/jarabe/view/keyhandler.py connects "F1" to zoom_mesh > for example. It could easily be changed to some other standard key. > Changing to a non-standard key that only exists on one keyboard model on > the planet is difficult but not impossible. > >> If possible: How hard of a task technically? > > Given a keyboard, no more than a few hours. There are several ways of > doing it. There are several software layers involved. > > Then you have to figure out how to tell Sugar what sort of keyboard you > have. Keyboards don't often identify themselves enough. That suggests > the addition of a keyboard chooser. That's perhaps more than a few > hours. > > It might be better from an architecture perspective to use a > standard keyboard mapping and change the key legends and physical > positions.
Also, have you considered creating keyboard stickers with special keys? http://www.hooleon.com/menu-stickers.htm?gclid=CLi_rKHhkqACFQRgZwod7j8-eg Regards, Tomeu > -- > James Cameron > http://quozl.linux.org.au/ > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel