Plans for the desktop beyond Fedora 7

[Matthias Clasen]

On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 22:00 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> 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.

For these, I had the crazy idea today that maybe you could have a tool
that asks you to press a key, and if no key event is coming forward,
parse the dmesg output for the keyboard driver warning...