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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon sezanzeb

State of Maintenance

Open sezanzeb opened this issue 1 year ago • 8 comments

You may have noticed that issues are piling up.

I believe most of them concern

  • installation
  • limitations of input-remapper/evdev
  • figuring out how to do things

Thanks to the pretty high test coverage, I think the tool is rather stable luckily (Thinking back, I wish I applied the DI pattern everywhere, would have made writing tests easier)

I have moved on to other hobbies though that are a bit less complicated quite some time ago (music and cycling among others), and I think @jonasBoss has also been doing different things than keeping an eye on input-remapper for quite some time.

I am still looking at pull-requests, but don't expect valuable input from me in all other cases. Thanks to this being open-source, anyone is invited to participate in keeping this project alive. Check https://github.com/sezanzeb/input-remapper/issues/177 out for more information on how to participate.

Thanks for your support. I hope this post makes me feel better for turning my back on you.

sezanzeb avatar Feb 26 '24 15:02 sezanzeb

(I think we should probably remove the donation link from the front page since we aren't really involved anymore, @jonasBoss?)

sezanzeb avatar Feb 26 '24 15:02 sezanzeb

Well, given that I only read this now ... I have been busy with university and working on my master thesis. I will try to be more active helping with issues but I don't have time to contribute much.

I think we should probably remove the donation link from the front page since we aren't really involved anymore, @jonasBoss?

I agree

jonasBoss avatar Jun 22 '24 13:06 jonasBoss

Is there any active fork of this or valid alternatives?

edofe99 avatar Jun 23 '24 13:06 edofe99

Is there any active fork

Since I'm still willing to review PRs there is no need for a fork.

As for alternatives, https://github.com/snyball/Hawck comes to mind, but being an evdev based solution as well as far as I know, it suffers from the same limitations.

Development effort should be focused on improving the situation in linux in general: allowing multiple mapping tools to do their thing on top of each other, and allowing injecting any character (instead of any keycode). See https://github.com/kermitfrog/inputmangler/issues/2 and https://github.com/kermitfrog/inputmangler/issues/5

sezanzeb avatar Jun 24 '24 12:06 sezanzeb