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I think this can be considered as a bug. I've saved you the trouble and added it to bugzilla myself Thanks for reporting.

Works with sensor.

Does not work with camera button.

Don't hate me for this, but wouldn't it make sense to merge shortcutd and tweakr? The less similar apps the better, even if both apps are great, which these two are!

What does tweaker with the camera button?

I can't see any shared characteristics. Could you explain this?
As far as I know: Tweaker is for modding. ShortCudD for usability.

I don't want to install a big software package when a small and clever application can do the same job.

Tweakr also has powerbutton functions, which imo is the same thing as using camera button functions. I don't share your view on tweakr being for modding any more than shortcutd to be honest. Tweakr has just expanded the scope a bit more.

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Tweakr only modifies the Setting for the Power Button. But it doesn't install a daemon and add a additional function to a not used Button. Sorry, these are total different things.

The Menu for the Power Button was there before. ShortCutD doesn't modify a existing function, it adds a own function.

Tweakr couldn't do the same job without installing the same daemon like ShortCutD does. So, why not install it from a seperate package?

Cause setting button functions for camera button or power button seems like similar tasks to me. So why not group stuff like this up. Also camera button had uses set to it already, those are just enable for larger/different kind of use. I still don't understand what the difference is between assigning tasks for the two buttons. It would be the same thing if you assigned actions for the backspace key for example? I'd have this button also inside the application that lets you define what each button does.

While I do see that these programs have similarities from the UX point of view, they techically work on different principles.. Both of these projects have already working packages and they can co-exist without conflicts. There is very little to be gained from merging, and I am against merging projects just for the sake of it (The traditional unix way is to "have a program do one thing and do it well").

But as the programs are under GPL you are of course free to combine these under your own project as you see fit... alternatively, providing a patch to accomplish this could give you a whole new edge in this discussion as it would save us the work that might feel unnecessary

I just found shortcutd today, from another thread (http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=575706&postcount=6), liked it alot, but got me wanting more, so I made a feature request, which actually has many of the features discussed in this thread kind of combined when I later read this. TFR:
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9646

Aaaah... good Idea zimon. I like it! *gg

Yes, I've got the same Idea in the beginning of this year. Good to see someone else comming up with such a suggestion. Your Idea is more than I want, but that shouldn't be a problem for me.

hqh, one of the two programmer of shortcutd wrote that it could be worth to implement this if enought people find it useful. So with a second simmilar suggestion I hope the chance for a implementation gone up!