Comment 58 for bug 201887

2008/4/30, BradwJensen <email address hidden>:

> You bought this exact keyboard and this is how this one keyboard is made
> to work. lol

No. I bought this keyboard because it has comfortable keys. And because it
is not some cheap plastic junk like all the keyboards I had before this. I
could not give a rat ass about how it's supposed to work on a mac, this is
Linux, not a mac.

I'm not saying it has to be that way, but it is the original way for
> this exact keyboard, and you bought it that way.

I did not buy it that way. I bought it with cash. And it should damn well do
what I expect this to do, and behave like any other keyboard I plug on this
friggin' linux box.

  The thing even works
> this way on a mac, I know cos my friend has one. It was made for multi-
> media before function keys. Maybe Linux has a bad/old way of using
> keystrokes?

I know that it works like this on macs. I have worked in a mac store just a
few months ago and I sold these things. That's where I bought mine. The mac
software is not centered around the F* keys, but most apps in the
windows/gnome/kde/xfce ecosystem use those keys. Don't give me some argument
about linux not being media centered enough, every other keyboard on the
surface of this earth that I could get my hands on has behaved correctly,
even this one... until now. The keyboard is supposed to interact with apps,
not the apps caving in to the keyboard.

Or maybe Mac is just weird.

It's not weird, it's different. Now, here, this is not a mac; a keyboard,
being apple-branded hardware or not, should behave accordingly to the host
platform.

I'm certainly more rude than I should be here, but attitudes like that in
this thread are really starting to piss me off. Oh sure, just relearn half
of your shortcut techniques, grow a third hand, or buy a different keyboard
or a mac! Oh yeah, just weave through the missiles!