xfce4-mixer patchset

[Guido Berhoerster]

* Natanael Copa <ncopa at alpinelinux.org> [2012-09-24 11:23]:
> On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 19:42:19 +0200
> Harald Judt <h.judt at gmx.at> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Am 22.09.2012 19:29, schrieb Natanael Copa:
> > > On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 23:17:16 +0200
> > > Landry Breuil <landry.breuil at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> I've tried building it, but failed since it inconditionally
> > >> depends on a new thing (keybinder) not packaged yet on OpenBSD.
> ...
> > > One way to do it without the keybinder dependency would be to add
> > > commands line options which you could bind keys to:
> > >
> > >   xfce4-mixer --volume-up
> > >   xfce4-mixer --volume-down
> > 
> > Implementing these command line switches would be a total waste of
> > time. There are already a lot of command-line tools (e.g. amixer)
> > which can do such a job perfectly,
> 
> So if we want provide multimedia keys that works out-of-the-box on all
> platforms, without adding keybinder dependency, what options do we have
> really? I suppose the mentioned amixer is not available on
> OpenBSD or any non-Linux.
> 
> Maybe have a configure option to libxfce4ui?

Distributions can just supply a preconfigured
xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts.xml, no need to handle this upstream.
Once OpenBSD updates their keybinder port in order they could
also have these keyboard shortcuts handled by xfce4-mixer if they
desire.
-- 
Guido Berhoerster