Idea: Increase fan speed when built-in keyboard (or trackpad) is being used

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Just an idea at the moment, will comment if I find some time to make a patch.

I'm using smcfancontrol largely to keep my palms comfortable when using my macbook in warmer temperatures (and thank you a ton for this!) - it'd be interesting if there could be a setting that enables a higher fan speed profile when the internal keyboard (or alternatively the trackpad) is being used. There would need to be some hysterisis/timeout in processing the input of course too. Optionally this could be combined with a threshold to happen only when the temperature is above a certain threshold (~41 degC), as there's times when one wants the palm rests to be warm during cold weather.

I'd have to double check on the keyboard - I know that for the trackpad (see https://web.archive.org/web/20150411183849/http://steike.com/code/multitouch/ ) , the data provided in PrivateFrameworks/MultitouchSupportFramework will enumerate the touch data by each trackpad (i.e. internal trackpad gets one id, bluetooth trackpads are enumerated) .