[Sugar-devel] behaviour of F-keys on XO HS

[Paul Fox]

i'd like to bring this discussion to a conclusion.

i'm starting to be a fan of this proposal of bert's -- it's very
simple, keeps the keys the same in sugar and in gnome, and on
membrane and non-membrane keyboards, it's backwards compatible
with existing use on XO-1, and the volume/ brightness keys remain
easily discoverable.  it does require that sugar respond to F5
and F6 for "journal" and "frame" -- i still don't have a feeling
for whether that's an issue or not, and if so, how big.

any yeas or nays?

paul


bert wrote:
 > 
 > On 17.07.2010, at 09:31, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
 > 
 > > El Thu, 15-07-2010 a las 23:08 -0400, Paul Fox escribió:
 > >> i think everyone (except
 > >> apple, i'm learning tonight) agrees this is the correct setup
 > >> when not in sugar.
 > > 
 > > Lenovo also seems to be switching to the Apple layout:
 > > 
 > > http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/01/thinkpadedgepost16.jpg
 > > 
 > http://www.thinkpads.com/wp-content/gallery/lenovo-thinkpad-edge-13-review/lenov
 > o-thinkpad-edge-13-keyboard.jpg
 > > 
 > > Almost all the historic F-key mappings have an alternative CTRL+key or
 > > ALT+key mapping in modern HIGs. Keys to control laptop volume and
 > > brightness are accessed much more frequently, so it's foreseeable that
 > > over time they will supplant the F-keys in PC keyboards.
 > 
 > +1
 > 
 > IMHO pressing "fn" to get "f1" to "f10" makes sense. In my daily routine I much 
 > more often change volume or brightness than use the numbered F keys.
 > 
 > Looking at this again
 > 
 > 	http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Spanish_Non-membrane_Keyboard
 > 
 > I propose:
 > 
 > 	f1-f8 produce F key codes both with and without the fn key
 > 	f9-f12 produce F codes only with fn, and volume/brightness events 
 > without fn.
 > 
 > So holding down fn always gets you the F key codes, you can change 
 > volume/brightness without modifier, and as a bonus you can use the first eight 
 > F keys even without the fn key.
 > 
 > This mapping should work both in Sugar and outside. 
 > 
 > - Bert -
 > 
 > 
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