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
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