[Bug 3197] Proposed keymap for Zaurus spitz and akita

[bugzilla-daemon at treke.net]

http://bugs.openembedded.net/show_bug.cgi?id=3197





--- Comment #5 from Andrew Zabolotny <zap at homelink.ru>  2008-03-24 21:03:58 ---
>The Fn+LeftArrow / Fn+RightArrow key combination to switch between console and
>X is common to all zauruses. Changing it would complicate things. I would
>rather not touch this.
But there's no way to enter Home and End then. Since I'm doing a lot of editing
on Zaurus, I find it a lot more useful to have Home and End than switching
between consoles, besides it's pretty logic as PgUp/PgDn are already mapped to
Fn+Up/Down.

Switching between consoles is still Fn+Ctrl+Left/Right, e.g. it's almost the
same as it was earlier, except that you have to press additionaly Ctrl. Since
it's not a very often done operation (in fact, I think the regular user should
not bother about text consoles in general) I think it's a good tradeoff.

>AFAIK the two Japanese keys are mapped to Control and Alt. Alt is kinda useful
>at times and I'd rather not lose it =)
The left one is mapped to Alt, yes, and I have not changed it and I find it
useful too :) But the second is unused as Zaurus had a dedicated Ctrl key at
left of the "Alt" key. Since Zaurus has little keys in general, I find it a
waste to have two Ctrl's :)

>The rest is fine with me. You obviously put a great deal of effort into this
>keymap, it is appreciated =)
Thank you. I also had an idea to write an application to switch keyboard
languages with a hotkey (and perhaps to integrate keylaunch functionality into
it too), but since this patch stayed so long without feedback in bugtracker I
got sidetracked by other things. And I don't even know who I should discuss
such things - the irc channel is mostly dead.


-- 
Configure bugmail: http://bugs.openembedded.net/userprefs.cgi?tab=email
------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
You are the assignee for the bug.