Re: A user point of view

[OKUJI Yoshinori]

From: Thierry Laronde <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: A user point of view
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 23:10:01 +0200

> I agree that there is no safe way. But the panacea doesn't exist : it
> would be just an opportunity, if the user has not obstinately screwed
> the system, to recover a usable keyboard.

  That sounds reasonable, but I suspect that it is normally adequate
to press Ctrl-Alt-Del (or run the command "reboot").

> you need to map ASCII codes, is strange. Are there stranger keyboards
> where the DEL and BS are not at the "same place" as in the qwerty US,
> needing to remap them ?

  Yes. I have seen many odd keyboards. IMO, most of them are useless,
though. :-p

> Commands that will be run without needing to be put in an entry (like 
> `default'
> `fallback' etc...).

  I see.

> >   However, this isn't as easy to implement as this may seem. So I may
> > not work on this.
> 
> Don't be mistaken : I know this is not easy. And I understand that this
> is not of the higher priority, simply because you can already run these
> entries... via the menu.

  When I say "I won't work on something", I mean that if you send a
patch for it...

Okuji