[Sugar-devel] testers needed: grab keys and touchpad rotation

[Wade Brainerd]

Cool!  I'm looking forward to trying this when I get back to my XO....
I wonder though, is there a reason this has to be a separate daemon, and
can't just being part of the HPGK driver with a /sys/... interface for
control?

Best,
Wade

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 4:45 PM, <pgf at laptop.org> wrote:

> sorry about that.  replying to add a subject...
>
> i wrote:
>  >
>  > last week i announced a daemon that would activate the grab keys
>  > on the XO keyboard.
>  >
>  > a day or two later there was a thread about how it would be nice
>  > if the action of the touchpad rotated with the screen (in much the
>  > same way that the dpad keys do).
>  >
>  > since my daemon was already looking at every input event, it seemed
>  > a natural place to implement the rotation feature.
>  >
>  > and after doing that, the name seemed like it should change.
>  >
>  > so, announcing "olpc-kbdshim".
>  >
>  > source:
>  >     http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/pgf/olpc-kbdshim
>  >
>  > rpm:
>  >     http://dev.laptop.org/~pgf/rpms/olpc-kbdshim-1-1.i386.rpm
>  >
>  > after installing the rpm you need to fully reboot your laptop to
>  > get the plumbing set up properly.
>  >
>  > the rpm includes a new command "olpc-rotate" which takes care of
>  > all the mechanics of screen and touchpad rotation.  since sugar
>  > (currently) handles this key binding, the rpm postinstall script
>  > patches /usr/share/sugar/shell/view/keyhandler.py so that it
>  > invokes os.system("olpc-rotate") _instead_ of its current builtin
>  > behavior.  separating it out like this makes olpc-kbdshim and
>  > olpc-rotate more useful for non-sugar UIs.  i wrote the sugar
>  > patch so that it won't break if you uninstall the olpc-kbdshim
>  > rpm -- sugar will take over the rotate function again.  also,
>  > though i haven't tried it on today's brand-new sugar 0.84 (good
>  > work everyone!), a look at the current keyhandler.py says the patch
>  > should still apply correctly.
>  >
>  > the topic of ebook-mode touchpad usage came up the other day too.
>  > while i didn't create any visible UI support for it, the daemon
>  > will put the touchpad in and out of ebook-mode (which means,
>  > reflecting it on both x and y axes) using "olpc-rotate -e/-n"
>  >
>  > please let me know what you think...
>  >
>  > paul
>  >
>  > p.s.  btw, the daemon isn't really very olpc-specific.  i've been
>  > running it on my thinkpad all week, in order to get the use of
>  > the grab key scrolling.  the thinkpad doesn't have Windows keys
>  > (which is what the XO grab keys are), but it turns out the blue
>  > Fn key in the corner can be used as a modifier, so that plus my
>  > trackstick gives 2D scrolling -- it came in very handy for
>  > looking at the bootchart images this morning.
>  >
>
> =---------------------
>  paul fox, pgf at laptop.org
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