Interested in contributing to KDEConnect

[Ahmed Ibrahim Khalil]

Hi Albert,

It is a good idea to use uinput, I've seen the API and I think it is pretty
easy to deal with.

But one problem I think we might face, is that the permission of the
"/dev/uinput" file, I've tried the libsuinput API and the file descriptor
return was always -1. Until I've changed the permission with chmod to
"+0666" it worked after that.

How are we going to solve that problem on the KDE users devices ? Of course
we won't tell them to execute that command on the /dev/uniput file, right ?

Cheers


On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Albert Vaca <albertvaka at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Ahmed,
>
> Maybe you want to change and use "uinput", the linux input
> system, directly. With uinput you can register yourself as an input device,
> just like a real mouse or touchpad. This has several advantages, like that
> the settings in KDE that are applied to the mouse will also be applied to
> your input, or that you will be able to simulate smooth scroll (pixel by
> pixel and not line by line).
>
> I haven't tried it, but I just found an example that uses uinput and
> simulates a scroll wheel: http://android.serverbox.ch/?p=334
>
> Also there is a library to make it easy to use uinput from user space:
> http://tjjr.fi/sw/libsuinput/
>
> If you want to keep with XTest and can manage to make it work it's fine,
> I'm just suggesting a different approach in case XTest is not enough :)
>
> Cheers!
> Albert
>
> El dissabte, 28 juny de 2014, Ahmed Ibrahim Khalil <
> ahmedibrahimkhali at gmail.com> va escriure:
>
> Great Ideas Albert, I am currently working on two thumb scrolling, it is
>> pretty easy to implement on Android and I am half way though it, but still
>> need to figure out on how to send the scroll event using XTest
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Albert Vaca <albertvaka at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> And about the right click problem: you could add a small button to the
>>> top bar or somewhere else to do it.
>>>
>>> And maybe we could have another button to open the Android keyboard and
>>> send the keystrokes to KDE.
>>>
>>> I think this would be super useful for media centers or other setups
>>> where you don't use the keyboard and mouse often, so you don't want to have
>>> one always attached.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Albert Vaca <albertvaka at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> It's merged! You should have received an email with the commits.
>>>>
>>>> I would love that you keep contributing to KDE Connect with this or
>>>> other plugins :)
>>>>
>>>> I think we have lots of possibilities, and would be great to have you
>>>> with us!
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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