On Thu 20-04-06 21:08:48, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote: > Martin Mares wrote: > >Hello! > > > >>Generic application does not need to know if power, > >>sleep, or lid button is pressed, so you will need to > >>intercept them from input stream... I cannot find any > >>reason to mix these buttons into input, do you? > > > >Neither does a generic application need to know if the > >NumLock key is just > >pressed. This doesn't mean anything. > > > >I don't see any reason for treating some keys or buttons > >differently. > >A key is just a key. > There is one special key anyway -- reset... Your point is? There's also hardware power button on many machines. They are not controllable by software => they are not relevant to this discussion. Pavel -- Thanks, Sharp! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
