Maemo brainstorm: http://maemo.org/community/brainstor...n_input_reader

Oringin of the idea (don't read if you're in a rush):

This idea started with the PowerMP3 music player for symbian S60v3 and v5; If like me, you had an N82, you surely know that the default headset HS-43 is a 5 button headset that is not recognized by the default music player. All you can do is answer/voicedial, end and volume control.

PowerMP3 became instantly my favourite music player since the developers embedded configurable headset buttons into the program and suddenly my useless headset gained play/pause fw and back functionality!
And so PowerMP3 was and still is the only program that can make probably any nokia headset work with a symbian phone even if by default it is not supported by Nokia's music player.

PowerMP3 is the only program able to "fish" headset commands although we have a few other tools that are able to remap keys on symbian.
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So, since the N900 supports call-end with the crappy out of the box headset(sounds decent actually ) I think it can read input from other headsets aswell.

All we need is an app that can:
-be easily configured from the control panel
-sense the input from any/most headsets out there
-support input gestures such as double tap and long press
-translate it into actions (maybe via the AVRCP switches aswell to have some kind of global access to every music player that supports AVRCP so that the developer doesn't have to modify the app each time a new player is released)

Please feel free to share your thoughts and think of the necessity such an app has!
Maemo brainstorm: http://maemo.org/community/brainstor...n_input_reader
The thread where the technology is being discussed: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=480835

Thank you.