Every laptop now has a wireless hotkey button.
Is it possible that network manager could handle it?

I will better explain the idea.

1) The network manager daemon is the best place where the handler can be put, so this is desktop independent.
2) in /usr/include/linux/input.h is defined a key named KEY_WLAN with number 238, this is definitely the keycode to listen to.
3) The action of course has to be notified to the user, through the applet.
4) the disable action should be to power off all the wireless cards (and hide wireless from the applet)
5) the enable action should be to power on all the cards and do a scan (of course send the results to the applet)

What do you think?
Thank you.
Nicolò Chieffo