onboard: add haptic feedback

[Most People Use Their Full Name here]

Binary package hint: onboard

I am using onboard as input method on a phone with capacitive touchscreen. Since these touchscreens are not very precise it is good to get a firm feedback from the device to know a button was pressed. In windows mobile (stock operating system on this device), a very short vibration pulse will be triggered each time a button on the included on screen keyboard is pressed.
In Linux vibration is triggered by writing the vibration duration in ms to a sysfs node on the device.
E.g. this could be inserted where the button will change color on press.
As there are other mechanism like LED or whatever else is available on other devices to think of it would be nice to make this dynamic. E.g. add an input field where the user can put a command to execute on button press.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: onboard 0.93.2-0ubuntu1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32.9-38168-g65aefba-dirty armv7l
Architecture: armel
Date: Mon Jan 11 13:45:41 2010
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: onboard

[Timothy Meade (tmzt)]

It might make sense to add support to libcanberra for this sort of thing, it already has a gtk module to handle events and generate sounds.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test a current Ubuntu 10.10. Ubuntu 10.10 now has version 0.94.0-0ubuntu1, and on my computer, when I press a key in Onboard, it shades dark to signify the key was pressed. Does it not do that on your phone?

[Most People Use Their Full Name here (fullname1)]

Hello,

You're welcome. Thank you for the attention.
Yes I am also using onboard in 10.10 and I also do get the color
change on button press.

Do you think it would be overzealous to globally add such a function
as proposed ? I know it is a very special use case but if you think of
the evolving tablet (or other large touchscreen-) devices it may be
used broadly soon.
I might test it on my device and see if it works well. The problem is
I don't have much coding experience and have no idea where to insert
it. Where are the lines that make the pressed key go black located ?

Kind regards
Luke

On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Charlie Kravetz <email address hidden> wrote:
> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to
> look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many
> changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem
> may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if
> you could test a current Ubuntu 10.10. Ubuntu 10.10 now has version
> 0.94.0-0ubuntu1, and on my computer, when I press a key in Onboard, it
> shades dark to signify the key was pressed. Does it not do that on your
> phone?
>
> ** Changed in: onboard (Ubuntu)
>       Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/626064
>
> Title:
>  onboard: add haptic feedback
>
> Status in onboard onscreen keyboard:
>  New
> Status in Ubuntu on modern Smartphones:
>  New
> Status in “onboard” package in Ubuntu:
>  Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
>  Binary package hint: onboard
>
>  I am using onboard as input method on a phone with capacitive touchscreen. Since these touchscreens are not very precise it is good to get a firm feedback from the device to know a button was pressed. In windows mobile (stock operating system on this device), a very short vibration pulse will be triggered each time a button on the included on screen keyboard is pressed.
>  In Linux vibration is triggered by writing the vibration duration in ms to a sysfs node on the device.
>  E.g. this could be inserted where the button will change color on press.
>  As there are other mechanism like LED or whatever else is available on other devices to think of it would be nice to make this dynamic. E.g. add an input field where the user can put a command to execute on button press.
>

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

I don't actually know, but the upstream for Onboard might know the answer. Since they are now maintaining the upstream in Launchpad, let's give them an opportunity to repsond.

I am marking this confirmed.