[haiku-development] Re: Suggestion: Rename "Keyboard" to "Typing" in Preferences
- From: mikesum32 <mikesum32@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:38:12 -0400
"Input Devices" will scare off the older people. What about something
like "Mouse and Keyboard"
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Patrick Kelly <kameo76890@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Sep 21, 2009, at 5:23 PM, Disreali wrote:
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>> --- On Mon, 9/21/09, Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2009-09-21 at 12:10:49 [+0200], Fredrik Holmqvist
>>> <fredrik.holmqvist@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>>> 2009/9/21, Truls Becken <truls.becken@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>>>
>>>>> Yes, I've been thinking the same for a long time
>>> (since before
>>>>> Touchpad existed). These preflets look
>>> trivially small when opened,
>>>>> and the list in the Preferences folder is
>>> growing rather long.
>>>>
>>>> Also, at some point we'll have to have touchscreen
>>> calibration.
>>>>
>>>> /Fredrik Holmqvist, TQH
>>>
>>> "Input Devices" sounds good to me. There should be a list
>>> of all the
>>> detected devices on the left side and the right pane shows
>>> a GUI
>>> appropriate for the selected device. Settings should be
>>> attachable to the
>>> devices. For example, I may want a different
>>> acceleration/speed for my
>>> 400dpi mouse than for my 1000dpi mouse. Especially, I may
>>> want different
>>> settings for different keyboards, different keymaps even.
>>> For example, I
>>> may attach a keyboard to my notebook and then I have the
>>> internal one and
>>> the external one. I want numlock to be on for the external
>>> one, but want it
>>> off for the internal one... you get my idea. I've already
>>> prepared the
>>> Keyboard input server add-on to have one keymap and
>>> settings per device,
>>> but this is nowhere visible in the GUI.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> -Stephan
>>
>> I do like the idea of a 'input devices' preflet. However, I would
>> rather see the mouse/trackpad prefs merged as well as the keymap/
>> keyboard. I do realize this would result in three preflets instead
>> of just one. I think it would be easier for new users to be able to
>> figure out what the three do, as apposed to just having a cryptic
>> 'input devices' pref.
>
> Not an ideal example but Control Panel seems to be a bit more cryptic,
> and people got around fine.
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>> -D
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