On a side note, it turns out there is no way to hack rcd to farm remote control events out to non-Apple programs. It has all the appleevents and such that it uses hardcoded in. I was really hoping they did something like implement a generic remote control AE that they sent to any app that cared, but no, if you’re not iTunes, DVDPlayer, iPhoto, QuickTime Player, or Keynote, you won’t see hide nor hair of the events.

Update: Turns out there’s a companion @"com.apple.dashboard.awake" notification as well that, you guessed it, brings Dashboard forward.