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Re: Gamepad support, recognition and use as alternative to keyboard
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Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko |
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Re: Gamepad support, recognition and use as alternative to keyboard |
Date: |
Tue, 01 Apr 2014 13:09:52 +0200 |
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On 01.04.2014 01:00, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> Gamepad support for systems with neither mouse nor keyboard.
>
> Should this be posted as a "feature request" / "wish-list" item using
> the bug-report system? Should we just put a tag in square brackets in
> the subject-line, such as [feature-request]?
>
Doesn't really matter. Unless you provide a patch or someone else picks
up the item, I don't think this is going to happen. I, and supposedly
most other devs, don't even have the gamepad.
> The users-support mailing list recently received a post from someone
> asking how to set-up grub to work on a system that doesn't have a
> keyboard and mouse. It's a gaming machine that might even find it
> difficult or impossible to add a mouse or keyboard. Also with the
> rise of Steam OS it might be that more people start needing Grub on
> gaming devices. Is there already an alternative multi-boot
> boot-loader for them? Is it likely to be difficult to get Grub2 to
> detect such an unusual device? Each game-pad seems very different to
> me so i wondered if that might be a factor?
>
>
> My response was to just tell the original poster to post a bug-report
> about it and look for another way of doing this in the shorter-term
> but a couple of us are interested in knowing if that was good advice.
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
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