Re: Communicating tablet mode status to userspace

Alan Cox <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.kernel.input,gmane.linux.hotplug.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> The change event would (presumably) trigger libudev's udev_monitor,
> which would be used by the on-screen keyboard software (maliit) to
> change its behaviour according to the property value.
> 
> Does this sound like a sensible plan, would these udev and kernel
> changes be acceptable? Or is there a better option that I'm missing?

Seems reasonable to me - but remember that a device can be in both tablet
and non tablet modes at once to different users once you have a wireless
display.

ie it's really not "tablet mode" it's "does this particular interface
have a keyboard"



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