From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
dtor_core@ameritech.net, "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@mbligh.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Remove silly messages from input layer.
Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 12:00:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060505160009.GB25883@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mj+md-20060505.154834.7444.albireo@ucw.cz>
On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 05:54:52PM +0200, Martin Mares wrote:
> > I'd argue that anything that triggers that many false positives is worthless.
>
> Why do you think these are false positives? They usually report real
> problems.
Did you read my earlier posts?
Users are seeing this *during boot*, before they've even pressed *ANY* keys.
They're seeing it after pressing a *single* key.
How on earth is "too many keys pressed" a useful message in this context?
Yes, maybe their keyboard is crap, but what is the user to do?
Go buy a new laptop because someone else has a utopian view on how hardware should be?
> Unfortunately a significant fraction of keyboards is crappy
> these days, but it's still good to know if the keyboard you are currently
> testing is broken or not.
When a user can't do *anything* about it, it's useless, and serves
as nothing but a cause for concern. "Oh no, is my laptop dying?".
Dave
--
http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-05 16:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-04 2:44 Remove silly messages from input layer Dave Jones
2006-05-04 7:13 ` Pavel Machek
2006-05-04 7:17 ` Pavel Machek
2006-05-04 15:08 ` Martin J. Bligh
2006-05-04 18:34 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-05-04 18:38 ` Dave Jones
2006-05-05 10:31 ` Pavel Machek
2006-05-05 10:39 ` Sergei Organov
2006-05-05 10:51 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-05-05 15:27 ` Dave Jones
2006-05-05 15:37 ` Martin Mares
2006-05-05 15:46 ` Dave Jones
2006-05-05 15:54 ` Martin Mares
2006-05-05 16:00 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2006-05-05 16:12 ` Martin Mares
2006-05-05 19:59 ` Nuri Jawad
2006-05-05 20:06 ` Martin Bligh
2006-05-05 20:30 ` Nuri Jawad
2006-05-07 8:07 ` Joseph Fannin
2006-05-08 6:43 ` Helge Hafting
2006-05-08 7:25 ` Con Kolivas
2006-05-09 6:54 ` Helge Hafting
2006-05-04 19:14 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-05-04 15:45 ` David Greaves
2006-05-06 18:51 ` Jindrich Makovicka
2006-05-04 14:59 ` Nuri Jawad
2006-05-04 19:24 ` Hua Zhong
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