[ltp] ThinkV launched

[Michael Gaber]

Tino Keitel schrieb:
> On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 15:21:04 +0200, Viktor Nagy wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've started developing a small app to get the most out of my ThinkPad
>> T61. It might be useful for other thinkpad models as well.
>>
>> For the moment it doesn't know much, but still, you can find it at
>> http://code.google.com/p/thinkv/
>>
>> If you would like to contribute, just drop me a mail, and I'll add you
>> to the members' list. Of course, besides patches, ideas are welcome as
>> well.
> 
> (Planned) Features
> 
>     * Toggle touchpad (works)
>     * Battery settings: start/stop charge thresholds, power-saving by
>       removing modules, etc
> 
> I think there should be a more generic approach, to support other
> notebooks that can configure such things, too.
> 
>     * Shortcuts for applications
> 
> Isn't this already handled by the desktop environment/window manager?
> It would be better to make sure that the Xorg keyboard configuration
> does know about all the special thinkpad keys, e.g. map volume up and
> down buttons to XF86AudioRaiseVolume and XF86AudioLowerVolume. This
> way, such special keys can be handled in a generic way by the desktop
> environment/window manager and no special tools need to be created.

well, at least here on my T60 and R50p these buttons are implemented in 
hardware, so they shouldn't generate these key-events, otherwise you'd 
have 2 volumen changes at once which is not what you want.

> 
> Regards,
> Tino