[Sugar-devel] behaviour of F-keys on XO HS

[Tim McNamara]

On 16 July 2010 10:50, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:

> Under non-sugar environments (e.g. GNOME), myself and Paul are in
> agreement that in order to change brightness and volume, you should
> press e.g. Fn+F9 (to decrease brightness).
>
> This matches behaviour of "normal" laptops, including the Dell that
> I'm writing on. Linux already has mechanisms (once through hal, now
> through udev) so that when I press Fn+F8 on my Dell, X receives the
> "volume down" key press (instead of the Fn+F8 key press), matching
> what is printed on the keyboard.
>
>
This convention appears to be changing. My very recent HP notebook requires
th Fn button to be pushed to reach the function keys. Everything is
reversed.

While I don't have the empirical evidence to support a claim that users
prefer to have quick access to volume & brightness, I think this could be an
argument to say that whatever the path of least resistance (in terms of
developer cycles) is fine.

Tim
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