Re: Plans for the desktop beyond Fedora 7

[Bastien Nocera <bnocera redhat com>]

On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 13:19 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 17:32 +0200, Robert M. Albrecht wrote:
> 
> > 
> > >> - enhancing the gui for extended keyboards
> > 
> > Most keyboards and laptop do have extra keys fort starting applications
> > or changing the speaker-volume.
> > 
> > Getting them to work is, in my opinion, non-obvious and sure to
> > complicated to an average user.
> > 
> 
> 100% agreed. However, additional gui is not necessary the right answer
> for that. There is currently a discussion on the hal mailing list on how
> to best make those keys work.

Not quite. The keys talked about on the HAL mailing-list don't even show
up in X, or at the input layer. They just don't exist at the kernel
level.

The keys that show up without a keysym at the X level (the ones with
0x... in the control-center capplet) need keymaps, or GTK+ understanding
X keycodes.