Hi. 2008/12/2 Rich Teer <rich.teer at rite-group.com>: > On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Shawn Walker wrote: > >> Regardless of whatever ancient behaviour existed in Solaris, the >> majority of new users are going to be from other platforms where home, >> end, page up, and page down all just "work" for their terminal application. >> >> Ideally, the default behaviour would be changed such that page up, page >> down, home and are all sent to the terminal application (just as they >> are in the majority of other platforms) and a legacy behaviour option >> added for those used to the older behaviour. > > With respect, this reply typifies what's going wrong with Solaris. > "Screw the desires of our current users, we've got to keep the new > people happy" seems to be the mantra.
Honestly - the same could be said of your reply. Why should it be bad to keep new people happy? There aren't that many Solaris users out there, after all - especially not if you compare that to switchers, from, let's say, Linux. > I agree that the behaviour should be configurable, but the default > should be what long-term Solaris users expect. Disagreement. Alexander -- [ Chat => Jabber: alexws77 at jabber80.com | Gmail: a.skwar at gmail.com ] [ Mehr => MSN: alexws77 at live.de | Yahoo!: askwar | ICQ: 350677419 ]
