[maemo-developers] Fwd: screen, battery, headphone: sense and modify

[From: Jesse Guardiani]

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From: Jesse Guardiani <jesse at guardiani.us>
Date: Nov 6, 2007 5:09 PM
Subject: Re: screen, battery, headphone: sense and modify
To: Neil Jerram <neil at ossau.uklinux.net>

Yeah, it is.

I think disq was talking to someone at Nokia about getting that
functionality into one of the firmwares, but I never heard mention of an API
for it. That would be great.


On 11/6/07, Neil Jerram <neil at ossau.uklinux.net> wrote:
>
> "Jesse Guardiani" <jesse at guardiani.us> writes:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > As many of you know, Kagu has support for much of this functionality in
> it's
> > maemo.py module using a combination of DBUS and filesystem polling.
> >   http://kagumedia.com/projects/kagu/browser/trunk/src/kagu/maemo.py
> >
> > However, almost all of this functionality is rather, ummmm, unofficial.
> And
> > some of it (like our "Screen Off" functionality) just doesn't work very
> well.
> > How can we go about lobbying for official APIs and interfaces to this
> > functionality?
>
> +1, kind of.  I'm enjoying Kagu more and more, and it occurred to me
> today to wonder if it is possible to lock the screen, but not the
> keys.  Then one could do a useful set of things (skipping forward and
> back, and increasing/decreasing volume) without having to take the
> tablet out of one's pocket.
>
> (I think that's broadly in the category your email is aiming at.)
>
> Regards,
>         Neil
>
>


-- 
Jesse Guardiani
Software Developer / Sys Admin
jesse at guardiani.us


-- 
Jesse Guardiani
Software Developer / Sys Admin
jesse at guardiani.us
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