[mythtv] [PATCH] Linux Input Layer support

[Micah F. Galizia]

On Wed, 2005-09-03 at 20:56 +0000, Ed Wildgoose wrote:
> >Is there interest in moving user input to (or adding support for) the
> >Linux input layer?  I realize that this is a fundamental change to the
> >current QT based UI architecture, but, it is more suited to remote
> >controls and "multimedia buttons."  The input layer could also replace
> >the joystick code, and in some situations, the lirc code.
> >  
> >
> 
> Well, I also have one of those ATI remote thingy's, so yes I have some 
> interest.  However, I suspect that there is a way to do this in a 
> slightly different and neater way?  Perhaps something more like a LIRC 
> daemon which converts back into the input layer?

Its not sure that you need to go back to the Linux input layer, and I'm
not sure you can.  My reasoning is that using the input layer, the
remote controls already work, and some remotes, ATI and Hauppaugge for
example, go through the input layer to begin with.

> However, it would be interesting to see if it wasn't possible to abstrct 
> the input layer further?  I still have dreams of building a Palm powered 
> remote control, possibly via a web based remote control.  It would be 
> rather useful to have a kind of abstracted "Status" component which 
> allows external devices to find out current state of the system and 
> hence send commands in context

I agree, it needs more development.

> Nice work.  Hope it goes somewhere!
> 
> Ed W
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-dev mailing list
> mythtv-dev at mythtv.org
> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
-- 
Micah Galizia
mfgalizi at uwo.ca

"The mark of an immature man is that he wants to die
nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is
that he wants to live humbly for one."   --W. Stekel
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
Url : http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-dev/attachments/20050309/22ec67f8/attachment.pgp