[haiku-development] Re: Suggestion: Rename "Keyboard" to "Typing" in Preferences
- From: Arnold <arnoldvanh@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:58:22 +0200
2009/9/25 Niels Reedijk <niels.reedijk@xxxxxxxxx>
> 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>
>
> And though it seems a bit odd to attach two keyboards, some people will do
this, think of an ergonomic (RSI) keyboard and a 'normal' one. Probably
settings will have to be different.
Two or more mouse-like devices..
And maybe you would like to use multiple joysticks for the kids soccergame?
Likely each one has the same function but their own preferences.
The really hard part usually is to make clear which preferences are for
which of the two (or more) similar devices.
Regards,
Arnold
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