Comment 17 for bug 355300
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| Henrique de Moraes Holschuh (hmh) wrote | #17 |
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BTW: Windows and Linux supports the ThinkPad flawlessly as long as Ubuntu is NOT messing with those volume keys.
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In fact, the "volume buttons drive the main mixer" is exactly how Windows DOES NOT behave. That has already been said in this bug report, but apparently some people didn't pay attention.
The fact is that the users have wrong expectations of how to use the ThinkPads. The correct way to fix that problem doesn't get anywere close to breaking the volume buttons.
You'd be much better off as far as usability goes if you provided a series of small animations or wordless diagrams to the user the first time he logged in. Those diagrams would display how the volume keys work in a old-style ThinkPad.
Have you ever used a ThinkPad in Windows with the full suite of "ThinkVantage" software installed? That's exactly what IBM and Lenovo do, at least for the docks and bays. I don't know if they have it for the volume keys, but the idea is sound.