<div class="gmail_quote">On 16 July 2010 10:50, Daniel Drake <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dsd@laptop.org">dsd@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Under non-sugar environments (e.g. GNOME), myself and Paul are in<br>
agreement that in order to change brightness and volume, you should<br>
press e.g. Fn+F9 (to decrease brightness).<br>
<br>
This matches behaviour of "normal" laptops, including the Dell that<br>
I'm writing on. Linux already has mechanisms (once through hal, now<br>
through udev) so that when I press Fn+F8 on my Dell, X receives the<br>
"volume down" key press (instead of the Fn+F8 key press), matching<br>
what is printed on the keyboard.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This convention appears to be changing. My very recent HP notebook requires th Fn button to be pushed to reach the function keys. Everything is reversed.</div><div><br></div><div>While I don't have the empirical evidence to support a claim that users prefer to have quick access to volume & brightness, I think this could be an argument to say that whatever the path of least resistance (in terms of developer cycles) is fine.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Tim</div></div>