Comment 14 for bug 355300

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Bruno Girin (brunogirin) wrote :

I agree with Dan and ikus060, if we have hardware buttons, we should make them work rather than create a mapping to other keys that are completely unrelated to volume control.

For a new user (and even an experienced one), having to learn that you need to press Fn+Insert or Fn+Delete instead of Volume Up or Volume Down just because you have a ThinkPad will be very confusing and propagate the myth that Linux (or Ubuntu) doesn't support hardware that Windows supports flawlessly.