Screen rotation on lid close - Dell Latitude D380

[martin.langhoff]

My Latitude D380 records (according to showkey)

227 press
227 release
227 press
227 release

on every lid close / lid open cycle. Sugar has this hardcoded to screen rotate, probably correct on the XO.

[biertie]

a patch for this problem Bernie and I came up with..

[tomeu]

What do you think about moving the rotation key handling to an extension? That way we can keep the hacks out from the shell, which is way safer (because failures in extensions are not propagated to the main loop) and is also nicer from a code organization point of view.

Btw, please see  http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/CodeReview

[bernie]

Replying to tomeu:

What do you think about moving the rotation key handling to an extension? That way we can keep the hacks out from the shell, which is way safer (because failures in extensions are not propagated to the main loop) and is also nicer from a code organization point of view.

Sounds like a good idea, but I lack the expertise to design this solution properly. Are you thinking about an XO specific extension to handle all these little things?

Btw, please see  http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/CodeReview

Thanks

[tomeu]

Replying to bernie:

Replying to tomeu:

What do you think about moving the rotation key handling to an extension? That way we can keep the hacks out from the shell, which is way safer (because failures in extensions are not propagated to the main loop) and is also nicer from a code organization point of view.

Sounds like a good idea, but I lack the expertise to design this solution properly.

Don't be so lazy! This is really easy and fun stuff. As an example, this extension will take a screenshot when the user presses the Print key:

 http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar/repos/mainline/blobs/master/extensions/globalkey/screenshot.py

Are you thinking about an XO specific extension to handle all these little things?

Yeah, one for all the special keys on the XO.

Btw, please see  http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/CodeReview

Thanks

Btw, if you don't put r? in the keywords field, the ticket won't be in the review queue and can get lost for several months.

[sdz]

Milestone soas_fossvt deleted

[sascha_silbe]

Bulk change distribution=SoaS -> component=SoaS

[sdz]

Assigning back to Sugar.