On Wed, 28 Apr 2010, Paul Fox wrote: > part of the impetus for this keyboard is that it be more "normal", for > use by older students, perhaps in non-sugar environments.
Sure. I'm actually arguing that Ins and Del are no longer normal, and mainstream computers far more popular than the XO often don't have them. > > Getting rid of those keys frees up valuable space that can be used, > > for example to move += to the top row, replaced by ?, replaced by > > up-arrow. No more hjkl. > > i'd far rather have as much of the punctuation in their correct places > as possible. I suggested this change in particular because it puts += much closer to its standard location. Careful about "correct" though. A few minutes on a UK keyboard may remind you that even countries with the same language have widely varying common layouts. > if you watch /dev/input/eventN, where N is the right device for > the keyboard, you'll get a KEY_FN code for the Fn key. and if > you use it to modify F1, you'll get KEY_FN_F1 instead of KEY_F1. Interesting. I don't know much about keyboard handling in X. Maybe we were just mistaken, or maybe the problem is at the X layer. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
