[Plasma Media Center] some advice request

[todd rme]

On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Alessandro Diaferia
<alediaferia at gmail.com> wrote:
> How should I handle such events in order to allow further extension via
> other kind of input devices? Any hint for me?

I think the ideal solution would be for the KDE shortcut system to be
changed to a pluggable system where people can write backend plug-ins
to provide support for additional input sources.  This would allow the
existing shortcut system to directly use buttons from other input
devices as shortcuts. So joystick buttons, bluetooth device buttons,
mouse buttons, remote control buttons, the wii remote, and so on could
be used as shortcuts for anything in KDE as long as long as someone
write a backend.  They wouldn't have to be buttons, either, voice
commands could be used as well.

This would mean all of KDE would benefit from any additional input
device plugins someone created for his or her own needs, instead of
what we have now where if it isn't a keyboard every part of KDE has
its own independent implementation (like plasma's handling of mouse
button combos) or there needs to be a separate application mapping
buttons presses to either keyboard combos or dbus (like
kremotecontrol).

KDE's lack of integration of non-keyboard input devices (particularly
mice) is a long-standing issue, and I think a general solution is
better than the piecemeal approach we have now.

See here for a longer explanation:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171295

-Todd