[gentoo-dev] Global USE flags for sound notifications (libcanberra) and global hotkeys (keybinder)

[gentoo-dev] Global USE flags for sound notifications (libcanberra) and global hotkeys (keybinder)

[Michał Górny]

Hi,

I think we've passed the threshold for making two USE flags global:

- sound notification support (usually via libcanberra)

- global hotkey support (usually via keybinder)

I don't have a strong opinion on flag names.


For sound notification, I've found that:

- 7 packages use "libcanberra" as the name

- 1 package uses "sound-notification" (and implements it using
libcanberra)


For global hotkey support, I've found that:

- 4 packages use "keybinder"

- 1 package uses "hotkeys" but it doesn't use keybinder and I'm not 100%
sure it's the same feature


WDYT?

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Best regards,
Michał Górny

Re: [gentoo-dev] Global USE flags for sound notifications (libcanberra) and global hotkeys (keybinder)

[Oskari Pirhonen]

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On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 07:49:49 +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I think we've passed the threshold for making two USE flags global:
> 
> - sound notification support (usually via libcanberra)
> 
> - global hotkey support (usually via keybinder)
> 
> I don't have a strong opinion on flag names.
> 
> 
> For sound notification, I've found that:
> 
> - 7 packages use "libcanberra" as the name
> 
> - 1 package uses "sound-notification" (and implements it using
> libcanberra)
> 

USE=sound-notification is nice and descriptive, but it feels a bit
awkward being so long. Looking at some of the descriptions for the
"libcanberra" flag on p.g.o, the most popular one seems to be:

    Enable sound event support using media-libs/libcanberra

Perhaps USE=sound-events? It's a bit shorter but just as descriptive.

> 
> For global hotkey support, I've found that:
> 
> - 4 packages use "keybinder"
> 
> - 1 package uses "hotkeys" but it doesn't use keybinder and I'm not 100%
> sure it's the same feature
> 

Maybe something like USE=keybind?

These names are also nice and implementation-agnostic :)

- Oskari

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