[haiku-development] Re: Suggestion: Rename "Keyboard" to "Typing" in Preferences

  • From: Niels Reedijk <niels.reedijk@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:17:07 +0200

2009/9/25 Pieter Panman <pieter@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 10:56 +0200, François Revol wrote:
>> Except you might want to have a qwerty keyboard with a qwerty keymap,
>> and an azerty one with azerty... Mice usually have very different
>> accelerations so you might want to make each one corrected separately.
>
> Nice ideas. Actually you might set one of the mice as default, for which
> you can set your preferred default acceleration etc. For each
> new/additional device you can either set its own acceleration/etc, or
> you can set a checkbox to use settings from default (disabling any
> device-specific settings). This way you won't have to change it for each
> device, but you can easily customize a sensitive mouse, etc.
>
> Good/bad idea?

I am sure that some people get very excited with the possibilities
that it opens, but I guess those people can be counted on two hands. I
would say this constitutes a useless feature which will make the
interface more complex for everyone.

N>

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