I'm going to handle sixaxisd with a status menu widget. It will sit hidden waiting for connection, and show status menu icon and reveal itself once controller is connected. The only option of the revealed widget will be to break the controller connection. It will then hide again and start waiting for the controller connection again.

Is that a good idea, or do you have a better one?


And I'm still wondering how to approach the joystick-2-keyboard "converter". Normal application running in background? Another status-menu widget?


It would also be "nice" to notify user, that the device kernel does not support joystick device (if so). But I don't know how to detect that (yet). Do you know?