From kde-utils-devel  Mon Apr 28 22:32:14 2008
From: kossebau () kde ! org (Friedrich W !  H !  Kossebau)
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:32:14 +0000
To: kde-utils-devel
Subject: kdeutils cleanup
Message-Id: <200804290032.15045.kossebau () kde ! org>
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Hi Jonathan,

Am Montag, 28. April 2008, um 12:30 Uhr, schrieb Jonathan Riddell:
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 05:32:53PM +0200, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> > * kmilo - kded module to support various types of hardware input devices
>
> kmilo firstly transforms the various laptop keys (volume, brightness,
> hibernate, music control etc) into something that can be used,
> secondly it handles those keys either itself or by passing them onto
> another app (such as kmix) and thirdly it displays the result on the
> screen.
>
> The first two items above should be done elsewhere, fixing laptops
> keys into something usable should be done by daemons like
> thinkpad-buttons or just mapping them directly to X keysyms.  Handling
> the buttons should be done directly by the application best suited
> (kmix, the power manager app, amarok) and showing the result on screen
> could be done in a library class, no need for a kded module.

Thanks for explaining, I had no time so far to dig into what KMilo is really 
about. AFAIU I agree with your findings.

> However, it needs someone to do that.

Perhaps I will make another call for the few programs from KDE Utils that are 
left without an interested person, and happily reuse your explanations above.

Cheers
Friedrich