Sunday, 10 January 2016

Support for "Airplane mode" keys

As we were working on audio jack notifications, and were wondering whether the type of notification we'd pop up in this case could be reused in other cases, I encountered a feature request that could now be solved easily with the rfkill D-Bus service we added to gnome-settings-daemon for the 3.10 release.

If you have keyboard buttons on your laptop to enable or disable Bluetooth, or Airplane mode, you can now use them. Note that the "UWB" toggle key will toggle the whole airplane mode mainly because no in-kernel driver uses it, and nobody remembers what UWB is.

Note that the labels and icons used are still subject to changes. In particular as you can see that the labels are too long for lower resolutions.






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6 comments:

  1. Josh Triplett10 January 2016 at 15:24

    Could those labels word-wrap, or go wider? Even if you found a string short enough to not wrap in English, the strings for other locales may need more room.

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  2. Marius Gedminas10 January 2016 at 21:12

    Did you mean "the 3.20 release"?

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  3. Bastien Nocera11 January 2016 at 10:43

    @Josh: don't know how we'll fix it, but we know how to fix those :)

    @Marius: No, the 3.10 release was the first one with the rfkill D-Bus service, originally for the Bluetooth panel and system menu's benefit.

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  4. Unknown14 January 2016 at 06:15

    I have a ThinkPad and the wireless key (F8) only toggles WiFi on and off. I would like it to be able to toggle airplane mode as I often fly. Alternatively a panel icon to toggle it work. At the moment you have to go into network setting to turn it on or off which is extra clicks.

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  5. Bastien Nocera15 January 2016 at 16:04

    @Peter: Either you can change the meaning of the key, using udev's keymapping support, or very likely use the physical airplane toggle. All the Thinkpads I ever had had such a toggle on the side of it.

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