[Sugar-devel] Keyboard Function-Special Buttons

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 00:17, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 01:35:34PM -0500, John Tierney wrote:
>> Is it possible to take these functions from F1, F2, F3 and map
>> these to special separate buttons?
>
> Yes.  sugar.git/src/jarabe/view/keyhandler.py connects "F1" to zoom_mesh
> for example.  It could easily be changed to some other standard key.
> Changing to a non-standard key that only exists on one keyboard model on
> the planet is difficult but not impossible.
>
>> If possible: How hard of a task technically?
>
> Given a keyboard, no more than a few hours.  There are several ways of
> doing it.  There are several software layers involved.
>
> Then you have to figure out how to tell Sugar what sort of keyboard you
> have.  Keyboards don't often identify themselves enough.  That suggests
> the addition of a keyboard chooser.  That's perhaps more than a few
> hours.
>
> It might be better from an architecture perspective to use a
> standard keyboard mapping and change the key legends and physical
> positions.

Also, have you considered creating keyboard stickers with special keys?

http://www.hooleon.com/menu-stickers.htm?gclid=CLi_rKHhkqACFQRgZwod7j8-eg

Regards,

Tomeu

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