From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Daniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org>
Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org,
hadess@hadess.net, Carlos Garnacho <carlosg@gnome.org>
Subject: Re: Communicating tablet mode status to userspace
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2012 22:39:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121002233956.71b805e4@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMLZHHS80_zdmgVtJ87w+fuQGC05yj+EoJt3C_zBC7hkyhnaoQ@mail.gmail.com>
> The change event would (presumably) trigger libudev's udev_monitor,
> which would be used by the on-screen keyboard software (maliit) to
> change its behaviour according to the property value.
>
> Does this sound like a sensible plan, would these udev and kernel
> changes be acceptable? Or is there a better option that I'm missing?
Seems reasonable to me - but remember that a device can be in both tablet
and non tablet modes at once to different users once you have a wireless
display.
ie it's really not "tablet mode" it's "does this particular interface
have a keyboard"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-02 22:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-02 22:27 Communicating tablet mode status to userspace Daniel Drake
2012-10-02 22:39 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2012-10-02 23:36 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-10-03 2:58 ` Greg KH
2012-10-03 14:52 ` Daniel Drake
2012-10-03 15:05 ` Greg KH
2012-10-03 15:23 ` Kay Sievers
2012-10-03 16:04 ` Daniel Drake
2012-10-05 15:50 ` Bastien Nocera
2012-10-05 16:11 ` Daniel Drake
2012-10-05 16:40 ` Bastien Nocera
2012-10-04 13:35 ` Mark Brown
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