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Stroller wrote: |
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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 fait |
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>>> 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 |
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> alt-F4 because the F4 key is there and is sure to be unused by |
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> anything else, but this function could easily be moved elsewhere if we |
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> got rid of the extra keyboard clutter. |
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> Stroller. |
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This is sort of funny in a way. I use the numeric keypad for numbers |
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about 90% of the time. The only time I use the numbers on the top row |
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are for things that are above the numbers. I also use the function keys |
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a LOT, a whole lot. I couldn't even imagine them not being there and |
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wouldn't buy a keyboard that didn't have the function keys or the |
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numeric keypad. |
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I hope some manufacturers don't shoot themselves in the foot while |
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removing keys. o_O |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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