Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: RE: backspace key not working on Java

2007-05-25 Thread Jon Trulson
On Sat, 26 May 2007, Doug Scott wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Because Sun wants Solaris to be a success" is the short answer to your question. You can't make money on a product when you're spiting the world and fighting losing battles. That 's anti-user. That's bad business. Not an

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: RE: backspace key not working on Java

2007-05-25 Thread Shawn Walker
On 26/05/07, Doug Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> "Because Sun wants Solaris to be a success" is the short answer to your question. >> >> You can't make money on a product when you're spiting the world and fighting losing battles. That >> > 's anti-user. That's ba

RE: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: RE: backspace key not working on Java

2007-05-25 Thread Bruce Shaw
>You are probably assuming that your customers only use Solaris! Being >one of your customers, stupid thing's like the backspace key not >exhibiting the same results as every other device that we own is very >annoying. You might find that your customer might celebrate rather than >be annoyed i

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: RE: backspace key not working on Java

2007-05-25 Thread Steve Stallion
On 5/25/07, Anne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The sad thing about this is that I still cannot get the backspace working on the Java environment. UGH what a major pain. And the DEL key acts the same way. The ONLY thing that works for backspace is continually hitting "CTRL+H" The Java interface is s

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: RE: backspace key not working on Java

2007-05-25 Thread Doug Scott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Because Sun wants Solaris to be a success" is the short answer to your question. You can't make money on a product when you're spiting the world and fighting losing battles. T hat 's anti-user. That's bad bu

RE: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: RE: backspace key not working on Java

2007-05-25 Thread Anne
ris.org Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: RE: backspace key not working on Java [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Not annoying current Solaris customers is one part of that strategy; > it is all too often ignored by people suggesting random changes to the > system's defaults. That coul

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: RE: backspace key not working on Java

2007-05-25 Thread Casper . Dik
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> "Because Sun wants Solaris to be a success" is the short answer to your >>> question. >>> >>> You can't make money on a product when you're spiting the world and >>> fighting losing battles. T hat >>> >> 's anti-user. That's bad business. >> >> >> >> Not a

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: RE: backspace key not working on Java

2007-05-25 Thread Brian Gupta
I have a nagging fear that some people inside Sun read this mailing list and interpret it as 'The voice of the customer'. It's not, it's the opinion of a self-selected group. +1 Totally correct. OpenSolaris.org, is definitely not the place to find your average Sun customer opinions. -Brian ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: RE: backspace key not working on Java

2007-05-25 Thread Doug Scott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Because Sun wants Solaris to be a success" is the short answer to your question. You can't make money on a product when you're spiting the world and fighting losing battles. That 's anti-user. That's bad business. Not annoying current Solaris customers i

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: RE: backspace key not working on Java

2007-05-25 Thread Alan Burlison
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not annoying current Solaris customers is one part of that strategy; it is all too often ignored by people suggesting random changes to the system's defaults. That could be said about a significant number of the conversations on this list - 10 people bitching about so

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: RE: backspace key not working on Java

2007-05-25 Thread Casper . Dik
>"Because Sun wants Solaris to be a success" is the short answer to your >question. > >You can't make money on a product when you're spiting the world and fighting >losing battles. That 's anti-user. That's bad business. > Not annoying current Solaris customers is one part of that strategy;

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: RE: backspace key not working on Java

2007-05-25 Thread MC
> >This should be filed as an RFE. Casper? > > Why? Delete is the proper key to use for doing a step > back; this > ain't PC land where they confused DEL (destructive) > and Backspace > (non destructive) with Backspace (delete left) and > DEL (delete under). > I *never* want to delete what is to t

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: RE: backspace key not working on Java environment

2007-05-25 Thread UNIX admin
> Looks like you did not understand the problem. > > DEL is the correct way to go. I understood what Casper wrote. Technically, Casper is right. Ergonomically, realistically, it's unreasonable. > The problem is that the PC keyboards are not > ergonomic and have > the BACKSPACE key where DEL be