Kubuntu Laptop Testing

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Sun Jul 2 14:24:28 BST 2006


On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 03:02:14PM +0200, Stephan Hermann wrote:

> Well, KDE has kmilo, which had some special keys supported for IBM laptops, so 
> there is a difference in the implementation.

That's not required on *buntu based systems. Thinkpad hotkeys appear via 
the input layer.

> Well, yes, the underlaying technology is the same, but the implementation is 
> different. And this has to be tested, if or if not the underlaying technology 
> is working on all different desktop flavours, not just one.

No, really, it doesn't. The low-level implementation needs to be tested 
on as many machines as possible, but the desktop-level implementation 
only needs to be tested on one.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org



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