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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KRemoteControl moved to kdereview
From:       Matteo Agostinelli <agostinelli () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-03-18 12:36:40
Message-ID: e64c8ae41003180536h6de23acwaf2e8d2e6b0fd20 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 22:03, todd rme <toddrme2178@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Michael Zanetti
> <michael_zanetti@gmx.net> wrote:
>>> Sorry for my ignorance, but what is the purpose of this?  Does it just
>>> handle identifying devices or is mapping button presses to commands
>>> also handled by this?
>>>
>>
>> You can query the RemoteControlManager for available remotes on the system.
>> Additionally you get signals when a remote control has been connected or
>> removed (e.g. lircd has been started or a bluetooth remote connected).
>>
>> After browsing the available remotes you can query each remote for its
>> available buttons. Each RemoteControl provides a signal named
>> buttonPressed(RemoteControlButton).
>>
>> RemoteControlButtons handle the transition between the backend representation
>> of buttons and the KDE representation consisting of a unique ID for the
>> button, its name and a translated human readable name for representing buttons
>> in UIs in a unified and translated manner.
>>
>> The purpose is to make using remote controls very simple and independent of
>> the underlaying technique and operating system.
>>
>> For example it would need just about 10 to 20 lines of code to make amarok
>> fully remote control aware using this Solid interface.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Michael
>>
>
> What about just integrating it into the normal KDE shortcut system, so
> that remote control buttons could be used the same way keyboard
> shortcuts are now?  A pluggable system where people could provide new
> backends for the normal KDE shortcut system would be very handy in my
> opinion.  It wouldn't just be useful for remote controls.  For
> instance I imagine the simon speech recognition software being
> discussed on the mailing list right now could probably use such a
> system to allow voice commands to be integrated into KDE's shortcut
> system.  It could also be used, with the appropriate backends, for
> mice and joysticks, both of which KDE applications currently need to
> program their own shortcut system for (as plasma does now for mice and
> some games do for joysticks).  It would mean people would only needs a
> single, consistent interface for assigned functions to all of their
> input devices.
>
> -Todd
>
+1
this would be really useful

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