https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112119
--- Comment #5 from MartinPC <petercraigmartin...@gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Mike Kaganski from comment #2)
I don't know what handle will appear with this comment, but I used to be
MartinPC. I seem to recall that I stopped being able to log in with my old
credentials at some point. I no longer remember the details, except that the
reason was technical -- a change in hosting? -- not due to any abuse or
impropriety on my part.
> I don't think we can do that.
And this now seems reasonable to me, in light of all the particulars you
listed.
I will say that it strikes me as highly questionable on the part of OEMs to
*not* make their pointing-stick APIs fully public and to *not* use standard
filenames and file locations for configuration files, within each major OS
family. Do they think every application developer in the world is going to get
in touch with them (and maybe pay them a little something, or cut them a
special wholesale price on bundling?) to get their applications included in the
pre-supplied pointing-stick configuration file, or to be given enough
information to appropriately edit the configuration file at the time the
applications are installed? For the life of me, I can't see a legitimate
rationale for keeping this information private.
(As someone with a modest background in antitrust, I *can* imagine an
*illegitimate* rationale, namely, a combination in restraint of trade to
unfairly promote some applications, e.g., Microsoft Office, and unfairly
disadvantage competing applications, e.g., LibreOffice. The Document Foundation
should ask the European Commission's Directorate General for Competition what
*they* think. I'm a US citizen and antitrust enforcement is all but dead over
here, so the ball is in LibreOffice's court on this one.)
I may have already tried to contact Lenovo and Synaptics about this problem
around the time I first posted this report. It was too long ago and I don't
remember. I can try contacting them again.
At any rate, I REALLY appreciate the effort and thoroughness Mike Kaganski put
into investigating this problem and putting it to rest. THANK YOU. The "bug" is
not LibreOffice's fault; it's the OEMs'.
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