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Support for 3.5mm plug keys
I recall hearing that one design goal of Sailfish (and the Jolla phone itself) was minimizing the number of hardware buttons. I'm not a big fan of this approach, and would certainly love a mappable extra hardware button, be it for answering/ending a call, turning on flashlight, switching bluetooth, going to launcher, etc.
So, would it be possible to add OS-level support for remapping those 3.5mm plug buttons, and obviously not enabling headset functions when just a button plug is installed (assuming it's possible to detect whether the plugged-in device is a proper headset or just a button plug).
Example of a button plug:
Support for 3.5mm plug keys
I recall hearing that one design goal of Sailfish (and the Jolla phone itself) was minimizing the number of hardware buttons. I'm not a big fan of this approach, and would certainly love a mappable extra hardware button, be it for answering/ending a call, turning on flashlight, switching bluetooth, going to launcher, etc.
So, would it be possible to add OS-level support for remapping those 3.5mm plug buttons, and obviously not enabling headset functions when just a button plug is installed (assuming it's possible to detect whether the plugged-in device is a proper headset or just a button plug).
Example of a button plug: