Re: Re: iPAQ h5550 keys patch

Hm, what about making them work as up/down but make the volume applet
accept this as vol+/vol-?

Dmitriy



Dmitriy Korovkin wrote:
> 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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