Comment 4 for bug 1451724

We can try to handle the media keycodes, I will update the patch in that
sense. Thanks for the research Michael.

However the volume keys are going to be more complicated: the app receieves
them just fine, but they are the same keys that are generated by the
hardware volume buttons on the phone (Qt.Key_VolumeDown, Qt.Key_VolumeUp).

The system intercepts them regardless of what the app does with them (I
tried to mark them as handled in Qt), and raises/lowers the volume.
I think it will be very confusing to shoot a picture AND raise/lower the
volume.

I guess we will have to live with the fact that some selfie sticks +
hardware combinations which generate volume keypresses won't be supported,
though that's going to be rather confusing for the user too.

On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 4:33 PM, Ken VanDine <email address hidden>
wrote:

> I tried #TheSelfie on my arale, it increases the volume. I didn't look
> to see what keycode is being generated, but what ever it is raises
> notify-osd showing the volume increase.
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1451724
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> Title:
> Selfie stick not supported
>
> Status in Canonical System Image:
> In Progress
> Status in camera-app package in Ubuntu:
> In Progress
>
> Bug description:
> I had a chance to play with a selfie stick: http://bit.ly/1KIYkBc
>
> Working fine on iOS it didn't do anything on Ubuntu. I had enough
> time to check out what what keycode it sends when pressing the shutter
> button: Qt.Key_MediaTogglePlayPause
>
> So I guess all it takes is to add a Keys.onPressed handler to the
> camera app and trigger the photo shutter or start/stop recording when
> in video mode.
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