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On 18 Jan 2010, at 21:50, James Ausmus wrote: |
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>> Very recent buyers of Lenovo laptops don't even *have* a SysRq key |
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>> anymore. I |
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>> reckon it won't be long before other makers follow suit. I can see |
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>> Lenovo's |
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>> point: there's probably less than 10,000 people in the whole world |
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>> that ever |
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>> used that key in the last 12 months and all of them are very au |
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>> fait with |
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>> Linux |
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> Yuck - really? Not even as an unlabeled Alt function of a Print |
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> Screen button? |
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> Sounds like a new kernel patch needs to be introduced, which allows |
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> you to select an alternative to the SysRq key for the magic |
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> commands... <sigh> Stupid HW manufacturers... |
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To me, this sounds like rationalisation - in the "make more efficient |
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by reorganizing it in such a way as to dispense with unnecessary |
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personnel or equipment" sense - on behalf of hardware manufacturers. |
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I would hate to do away with the numeric keypad myself, but at the |
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same time I have to question how often I use it. When I look at the |
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whole keyboard it seems crazy to have 102 or 105 keys in order to type |
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26 letters, 10 numbers and some punctuation. |
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The function keys of regular keyboards are never used by the majority |
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of people, and it has been this way for over a decade. Yet new |
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keyboards require them because IBM keyboards had them in the 1980s. |
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The authors of window managers map the "close window" shortcut to alt- |
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F4 because the F4 key is there and is sure to be unused by anything |
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else, but this function could easily be moved elsewhere if we got rid |
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of the extra keyboard clutter. |
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Stroller. |
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