Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 5 May 2006 21:59:11 +0200 (CEST) | From | Nuri Jawad <> | Subject | Re: Remove silly messages from input layer. |
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On Fri, 5 May 2006, Dave Jones wrote:
> Did you read my earlier posts?
Sorry to interrupt, but did you read my reply?
> How on earth is "too many keys pressed" a useful message in this context?
It doesn't say "user pressed too many keys", it says the keyboard *reports too many keys pressed* which is most likely what's happening. This is not a terribly useful, but valid error message.
> Yes, maybe their keyboard is crap, but what is the user to do?
Nothing, take notice of the fact.
> Go buy a new laptop because someone else has a utopian view on how > hardware should be?
You mean deciding not to silently ignore errors is having a utopian view? Are we talking about Linux or kernel32.dll?
> 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?".
Laptops come with Windows XP pre-installed for those users, what was your problem again?
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