Interested in contributing to KDEConnect

[Albert Vaca]

I was able to write to /dev/uinput without root permisions, just make sure
you are opening it as O_WRONLY | O_NONBLOCK.

I'm using this example and it works well, even though I had to change
"/dev/input/uinput" to just "/dev/uinput":

http://git.nosuchfile.org/?p=uinput-sample.git;a=blob_plain;f=uinput-sample.c;hb=HEAD


On Jun 28, 2014 2:45 PM, "Ahmed Ibrahim Khalil" <ahmedibrahimkhali at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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