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edfed 02 Feb 2010, 04:16
as i wonder what is the use of scroll lock, i tested it on many programs (M$ based) and nothing appens.
i ask to google for it meaning... Well! It is a functionality from the middle-age computing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scroll_lock it is completelly obsolete. 
then, it can be assigned for a different stuff. like a special indicator, with it's associated system-service. when you push scroll lock (for example), it will lanch a procedure that will point to the next element in a service list. he led will show in real time teh state of this service. on the screen, the gui wiill show briefly a little indicator on the nature of the new service (name, status, etc) as services, i think about: do nothng (just do the normal scroll lock job) show the menu show the HDD activity via the led show the pit rate/100 show mouse activity block mouse make arrow-keys as aditional mouse select a new fnction what do you think of this?  |
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revolution 02 Feb 2010, 04:25
The scroll lock keys on my laptops are not easy to activate. I have to push Fn+Num-Lock.
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02 Feb 2010, 04:25 |
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edfed 02 Feb 2010, 14:31
ManOfSteel wrote:
no no you don't have top be sorry. if you use this key, it's your right to tell it to us. but do you think it can b interresting to make a sort of scroll lock additional interrupt like i propose? the basic stuff i want to do with this key is a Hard disk Enable monitor, on the keyboard. and the simple fucntion of led is to just reproduce the HDD activity led. |
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02 Feb 2010, 14:31 |
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ManOfSteel 02 Feb 2010, 15:28
edfed wrote: but do you think it can b interresting to make a sort of scroll lock additional interrupt like i propose? Since it's unused under DOS/Windows, why not? But you have to make sure just pressing scroll-lock (by accident) doesn't do anything the user wouldn't usually want to do or anything that would take a relatively long time to start or complete. It would become very annoying, very fast. Either display a menu and from there users can choose whatever they want (similar to pressing the Win key) or make functions a little more difficult to access, e.g. ctrl+scroll-lock executes the default command. |
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02 Feb 2010, 15:28 |
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Borsuc 02 Feb 2010, 18:20
ManOfSteel wrote:
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02 Feb 2010, 18:20 |
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ManOfSteel 03 Feb 2010, 02:41
"UNIX is user friendly. It's just picky about which friends." and "UNIX is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity."
IOW, it's for intelligent users who want to learn how the system they're using works. And the rest is for dumbasses, hah! What?! You asked for it. 
BTW, I was talking about VTs (virtual terminals). Even though rodents can work under "text mode" for copy/pasting text, wheels aren't supported. None saw any use for them in the past 15 years I guess. As for scrollbars, I haven't seen any yet hehe. And that's good, because I'd lose a precious column if there were any. I need every goddamn block here for $*%&'s sake! Now terminal emulators OTOH support rodent wheels, shift-arrows and shift-pgdn/pgup quite well. |
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03 Feb 2010, 02:41 |
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Borsuc 03 Feb 2010, 18:42
It's not "picky" about which friends... if it lacks a capability that does not hurt in any way (how do wheels hurt? scrollbars might hurt a BIT of screen space for those obsessed, but wheels?)... it just sucks in that area
I wouldn't be surprised though, seeing as the Mac had traditionally a mouse with only 1 button...  and it's a *nix OS. |
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03 Feb 2010, 18:42 |
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Madis731 03 Feb 2010, 21:37
If you full-screen a Win command-line (Alt+Enter) - WOW, where did the scrollbar go?
Why do you blame UNIX for that? Its like (a clip from Top Gear) "it can take over a Ferrari when Ferrari's speed is 30km/h..." I don't know *that* much about Linux, but I think that either KDE or Gnome support scrollbars in terminals. http://www.nsftools.com/NL7/NL7-9.png http://polishlinux.org/reviews/cmd/linux.jpg ...AND I don't consider a mouse (a rodent) a usability feature. Mice are not very accurate and keyboard shortcuts get the job done much quicker. Now back on topic: I guess Scroll Lock is very rarely used in Windows and I wouldn't mind it showing me network activity or what-not... |
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03 Feb 2010, 21:37 |
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ManOfSteel 03 Feb 2010, 23:46
Borsuc, have you not understood anything in my last post, or are you just trying to piss me off? If it's option 2, you're failing miserably I must say.
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03 Feb 2010, 23:46 |
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mattst88 05 Feb 2010, 05:29
Borsuc has had a thing lately about (1) making unfounded and silly but inflammatory claims, (2) arguing. Please stop.
Don't argue with him either. |
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05 Feb 2010, 05:29 |
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Coddy41 05 Feb 2010, 18:28
Oh! So thats what that button does... Guess I never paid much attention to it.
 Come to think of it, my current keyboard don't have one._________________ Want hosting for free for your asm project? You can PM me. (*.fasm4u.net) |
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05 Feb 2010, 18:28 |
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Borsuc 05 Feb 2010, 21:32
Madis731 wrote: If you full-screen a Win command-line (Alt+Enter) - WOW, where did the scrollbar go? Though I can't say the same about some Windows bashers. (no, I'm not talking to anyone here) Madis731 wrote: ...AND I don't consider a mouse (a rodent) a usability feature. Mice are not very accurate and keyboard shortcuts get the job done much quicker. If Mouse Wheel isn't supported (let's assume as this was the basis of my argument, now wrong), that IS a 'problem'... it's not that you, or Joe, or Mike, or Smith, or whoever, doesn't use it. It's that people like me CANNOT use it. You don't HAVE to use something that is available, on the other hand I cannot use something that is NOT available. Again, since the GUIs support it, my argument was wrong, but the above is what it was about... nothing wrong with that. _________________ Previously known as The_Grey_Beast |
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