Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
But since everything nowadays is either about tolerance as the
maximum virtue on the one hand, or (inconsistly enough with that!)
about the absolute power of the majority on the other, as long as it's
possible to choose a default, I suppose I should be content with that,
and realize that nobody gives a damn about absolutes anymore, but
merely about instant personal gratification.
The default should relate to keyboard layout plugin into the system,
eithen if it is incorrect.
No, I'm not in lala land. Since you apparently didn't bother to look at the
file,
see
http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/uts/common/io/options.conf#25
Ok. Cool.
or for documentationn, see
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2254/6n4iaov4o?q=options.conf&a=view#Default%20Values
The SunOS 4.x defaults, except for DEL as backspace, are probably
closer to the Linux defaults than the One True Way (SVID) defaults are,
(you think DEL for erase is bad, try # for erase and @ for kill, like in the
grand Teletype days of old; given that an actual printing tty can't erase on
the paper, that made sense way back then).
I have used a Teletype before. I am glad they have disappeared.
Anyway, the point is that the systemwide defaults for all tty modes are
configurable. And that more example would help. And even that something
that automagically sets up one of a limited number of choices (i.e. the
popularity contest winner, plus the examples listed) at install time might
be kind of cool.
I don't see the need to ever hard code a single default. You can get
plenty of information
from the keyboard to work out a suitable layout.
Or as the file describes, use stty to set the modes
you like on the raw
console or a terminal emulator that does _not_ do
key mapping beyond what
tty modes do, and then capture the output of stty
-g and put that in there.
It should just work! No user intervention.
Fine, then it should be an install option to set it up
however. But you'd better plan on a trip to a hot place
I live in Bangkok. I am quite use to hot.
if you think
everyone else will sign up to having it just do it _your_ way by
default. You want it different than it is now, _you_ make a once-per-install
tweak (or once per many installs if you're using flar or JumpStart).
I would prefer that things like keyboards just work
in any personality.
I would prefer that people didn't presume that everyone's
default should be the same, nor that their idea of what is
right be incorporated into all "personalities", were those to
be supported one day.
When you are on a PC keyboard, do you really use the delete key rather
than the backspace?
It is just located in an inconvenient place. Classic Sun Keyboard
layouts (there are several) have
typically placed the delete key in the main section of the keyboard
roughly where the backspace
key is on a PC keyboard. I can totally understand why people use the
delete key in this case.
I don't think it is too much for the keyboard driver to change the
mapping for different keyboard
layouts.
Heck, I'll admit to being an arrogant jerk if you will first.
But not before.
Touchy, Touchy.... Please stick to playing the ball, not the player!
Doug
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