[ltp] ThinkV launched

[Viktor Nagy]

2008/7/8 Florian Manschwetus <florianmanschwetus@gmx.de>:
> Viktor Nagy schrieb:
>>
>> About the "shourtcuts for applications":
>>
>> I don't want to "reimplement the wheel" by adding the same
>> functionality that other buttons should provide, like you said,
>> raising the volume, etc.
>>
>> what I want is primarily toggleing the touchpad, and setting the
>> battery charging and power saving features.
>>
>> but once you have an application that is launched at the click of the
>> biggest special key on your keyboard, I think it makes sense to use it
>> as an application launcher as well.
>>
>> Let me give you an example:
>> instead of clicking Alt+F2 you click the ThinkVantage button. There
>> you can click on your "registered" apps, like Firefox to launch it
>> quickly, or you can enter a command as under Alt+F2.
>
> Excuse me, when I blend you , but did you have a look on KDE 4.1? just map
> TV Button to the new K-Menu and you have all what you described and even a
> lot more.
>
> Florian

That's great! Than my idea is really useful! Especially, if you don't
use KDE 4.1, but use Gnome instead.

V

>>
>> of course, there are applications that work in a similar way (for
>> example I try to get used to Gnome Do), moreover you can assign any
>> key sequence you prefer to launch a browser. But in my case there are
>> at least 4-5 such sequences (Firefox, console, emacs, Nautilus, ...),
>> and after a while remembering all these sequences just doesn't work.
>> (And for Gnome Do I have to type more than what I plan)
>>
>> So instead I would like to have an application where I click the
>> ThinkVantage button, and then (1) I see the list of my quick choices,
>> (2) I enter a single letter to launch the selected app.
>>
>> ---------------
>>
>> About the "more general approach" for battery saving, etc:
>>
>> I agree that it would be nice, unfortunately, I don't know much about
>> these features, neither about which other laptops support it. What I
>> would like to have is to support all the ThnkPad laptops that have
>> these features. Of course, if someone adds support for other hardware,
>> I won't be against it.
>>
>> V
>>
>> 2008/7/8 Tino Keitel <tino.keitel@tikei.de>:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 00:48:16 +0200, Michael Gaber wrote:
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> On my X61s, LCD brightness, volume up/down and mute seem to be
>>> implemented in software. Currently, I use input events for them, but
>>> I'd prefer a more lightweight solution (from the users point of view),
>>> like a pure kernel solution that works independent from X logins and
>>> input focus (in my setup, the keys don't work in OpenGL games because
>>> the take away the input focus from the desktop environment). I don't
>>> know if this is easy to achieve, though.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Tino
>>>
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