Re: New package

[lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 01:48:15PM +0200, Hans wrote:
> I have build a new package. It is named "xhkeys", the program is under th e 
> GPL. 
> 
> Well, as I am not the really maintainer, I still would like to release it into 
> the repository.
> 
> What does it do ?
> 
> xhkeys can bind any keystroke to a self chosen program or action. It is very 
> useful for notebooks and special keyboards with special keys, just like 
> "email", "browser" "volume up" "volume down" etc. so it is highly 
> configurable.
> 
> Is anyone interested ? The package was build for amd64, so 32-bit should work 
> as well.

How is that program different/better than xbindkeys and keylaunch which
are already in debian?

There is always room for new and better programs, but we can do without
programs that aren't improvements and just cause redundancy. :)

The web page for xhkeys does make it sound pretty neat though.

Len Sorensen