RE: Re: Ebuyer goodness

["Keith Doxey" <ukha@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: noel_pilot [mailto:HA@xxxxxxx]
>
> I've been watching these for the past few years,
>
> the full keyboard looks incredible, for gaming and other applications
> like video editing music producing, anything that uses keyboard
> shortcuts heavily!
>
> its been delayed again and again but they assure that the full
> keyboaard won't be silly money, keys can also show animations, i.e.
> mail checking graphics things like that, they can also be used with
> modifiers i.e. shift, ctrl etc to provide more functions, so if you
> could have some kind of hardware remote shift button next the this
> three key you could get six buttons instead :)
>

Just thinking laterally for a moment. Maybe the XPL or xAP camps could come
into play here. Possibly more xAP thinking about what xAP desktop can do
(although I am ashamed to say I dont currently use either protocol)

Most people have PCs that are capable of driving several monitors, what
about if a small touchscreen (linITX styleee) was dedicated to the task of
handling the shortcut keys etc. It would then be totally customisable in
respect of how many buttons, what those buttons were/did, and given the
versatility of xAP/XPL, could automagically be reconfigured in response to
events happening in your HA system or by programs that you launch, possibly
having multiple shortcut pages that change as you taskswitch between
applications.

Keith