onboard: add haptic feedback
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Onboard |
Confirmed
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
smartphone |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
onboard (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
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.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: onboard 0.93.2-0ubuntu1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32.
Architecture: armel
Date: Mon Jan 11 13:45:41 2010
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: onboard
tags: | removed: armel |
Changed in onboard: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
Changed in onboard: | |
importance: | Low → Wishlist |
Changed in onboard (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Low → Wishlist |
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.