Rich Teer wrote: > 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.
Wrong. That's why I suggested a legacy option. > I agree that the behaviour should be configurable, but the default > should be what long-term Solaris users expect. The only way to grow the community is to focus on people not already using Solaris/OpenSolaris. From a usability perspective, the current defaults are problematic at best in my view. While I'm not suggesting that everything be turned upside down, things have to change. It is not reasonable in the year 2008 to be using software defaults that are more appropriate for 1988. -- Shawn Walker
