Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 5 May 2006 12:00:09 -0400 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: Remove silly messages from input layer. |
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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
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