New keyboard layouts

[Tiago Marques]

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>
> maybe i'm misunderstanding you, but i think i didn't do a good
> job up above.  the 4 keys used by sugar for network, friends,
> home, and activity _are_ F1 through F4.  those keys have never
> been special, and they're not special on the new keyboard.  all
> that's changed on the new keyboard is that the keys now have two
> names:  the symbolic sugar icon, and the traditional F{1,2,3,4}
> name.
>
>
Nope, you read me right. I have not a good idea of what goes on in that
background(altough I knew they were the default F keys currently) so I was
asking if that was possible - to have different meanings to the F1-12 keys
and having them send another code when pressing Fn+F1-12, as it could be
reused by software(xmodmap?).

Since you're already reusing the F keys with gnome loaded to control volume
and the backlight, it makes sense to me to have the Fn key modify the
behavior to provide the default F1-12 behavior in some way. While they're
not used constantly, they are important sometimes. I frequently ran into
this problem and there's no easy way around missing F keys in Gnome, as if
this is a common use case... probably not but I don't do deployments :|

Best regards,
Tiago

this is in contrast with the arrow and pgup/dn/home/end keys where the
> secondary meaning is available only when you press the Fn key.

paul
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>  >
>  > Best regards,
>  > Tiago
>  >
>  >
>  > >
>  > > paul
>  > >
>  > >  >
>  > >  > Tiago
>  > >  >
>  > >  > On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Mikus Grinbergs <mikus at bga.com>
> wrote:
>  > >  >
>  > >  > > > The following are the keyboard layouts and legends for these
>  > >  > > > new keyboards.   Much thanks to Walter Bender for developing
>  > >  > > > these given a bad set of constraints.
>  > >  > > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_English_Non-membrane_Keyboard
>  > >  > >
>  > >  > > There may be users who wish to plug in an external keyboard.
>  Such
>  > >  > > external keyboards often have function keys grouped in sets of
> four.
>  > >  > > Such grouping places F5 at the beginning of a row of four keys,
> and
>  > >  > > places F6 in the middle of a row of four keys.
>  > >  > >
>  > >  > > Suppose users might be pressing the key for 'frame' more often
> than
>  > > the
>  > >  > > key for 'search'.  Should the 'frame' function be assigned to the
> F5
>  > >  > > key, since on external keyboards the F5 key might be easier to
> locate
>  > > ?
>  > >  > >
>  > >  > > mikus
>  > >  > >
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>  > >  paul fox, pgf at laptop.org
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>  paul fox, pgf at laptop.org
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