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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Call for ideas: KDE hardware extension tab in kcontrol
From:       Diego Iastrubni <elcuco () kdemail ! net>
Date:       2004-04-19 16:46:33
Message-ID: 200404191946.33256.elcuco () kdemail ! net
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do you know what is klineak-config? it does exactly that.

ביום שני, 19 באפריל 2004, 10:51, נכתב על ידי Willi Richert:
> Hi all,
>
> I need some input for a new section in kcontrol. The situation is as
> follows:
>
> 1) Certain Laptops have certain special function keys, which are not
> support by default. On Windows, every laptop manufacturer gives his own
> driver to leverage those functions. On KDE/Linux we have to support it by
> our own modules.
>
> 2) These modules are initialised in the System administration
> (Systemverwaltung) by individual dialogs (e.g. "Sony Vaio Notebook
> Hardware").
>
> 3) The problem: The more of such supporting modules exist, the more complex
> the overall design of kcontrol will get.
>
> 4) I've written a simple module (a plugin using kded::kmilo) which enables
> On-Screen display of vol up/vol down for generic supported laptop buttons
> (by X/Qt constants in qnamespace.h). There is no obvious possibility to
> turn this functionality off if you don't want it. I have to provide some
> kcontrol dialog, where you can turn it on/off.
>
> QUESTION:
> How should we organize the kcontrol special hardware functionality, so that
> it is obvious for every developer, where his features have to be set up?
>
> The solution, with which I first came up was this: We add a "Special
> Hardware" dialog to the system administration entry in kcontrol, where you
> have a combo box showing all extensions that have been installed, but which
> is not necessarily set up for use. If you seelct one extension, the proper
> dialog is set up, where you have also an option box "enable" or so.
>
> I'm a newbie in this section, and my only need is to fix
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75169 . What do you think, is this
> solution a good one? Are there other efforts in this area?
>
> Many thanks,
> wr
>
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