Re: Remove silly messages from input layer.

From: Martin Mares
Date: Fri May 05 2006 - 11:37:04 EST


> On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 12:31:23PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> > If you only pressed single key -- your keyboard is crap or there's
> > some problem in the driver.
> >
> > If you never pressed any key -- your keyboard is crap or there's
> > some problem in the driver.
>
> That's hardly a constructive answer when the keyboard is a part of
> a laptop. Crap hardware exists, get used to it.

Yes, but removing a message which can be sometimes useful is hardly
justified by crappy hardware sometimes triggering it. If it's triggered
too often, it should be rate-limited, not removed.

Have a nice fortnight
--
Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@xxxxxx> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
"It's a lemon tree, my dear Watson." -- Sherlock Holmes (?)
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