Re: Re: iPAQ h5550 keys patch

Erik Hovland wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 11:07:02PM +0300, Dmitriy Korovkin wrote:
>   
>> Once you are concerned about keys in iPAQ, here is the patch that solved
>> the problem for me.
>>     
>
> I was concerned about the thumbpad on the h5x5x. It was pretty unusable.
> Some student from the UK sent in a patch which fixed it. Now the
> thumbpad is A-OK! The hh41 kernel that shipped with familiar 0.8.4 has
> this fix in it.
>
>   
Ah, yes, currently I use this kernel.
>> It makes side buttons vol+ and vol- work as up and down. This is quite
>> convenient. When I read a book, it's good. opie-player and volume plugin
>> works fine with up and down buttons too.
>>     
>
> The vol+ and vol- buttons are already supported by the kernel. Opie just
> doesn't recognize them. I was in the middle of putting together a patch
> to make them available (note the addition of vol+ and vol- icons in the
> head of the cvs repo).
>
> The only thing I have with the patch you sent is that it reroutes
> those buttons in the kernel, which is not something I am eager to do.
>
> If you agree I will continue to make the volume keys available in Opie
> and add QCop access in volumeapplet. Otherwise, I am reasonable, we can
> work out something between what you have in mind and what I have in
> mind.
>
>   
Hm, for me it doesn't look like an optimal solution. I heard from some
PDA users (including myself :-)) that they prefer models with buttons or
a gear on a side to make it possible to scroll the text while they hold
a PDA in one hand. My opinion -- we should make it possible to switch
between vol+/vol- and up/down behavior.
> Thanks again!
>
> E
>   
Regards,
Dmitriy
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