Comments on: Apples and Orangeness http://blog.mozilla.com/dolske/2008/04/25/apples-and-orangeness/ The odd parity bit Sat, 17 Oct 2009 05:26:38 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Al Billings http://blog.mozilla.com/dolske/2008/04/25/apples-and-orangeness/comment-page-1/#comment-34513 Al Billings Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:58:19 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/dolske/2008/04/25/apples-and-orangeness/#comment-34513 The open-vmware-tools packages should be autodetected and installed for this release. This means that VMware works out of the box. Of course, I updated the QA image *two* days ago so now I have to go do it again. *grumble* Fedora 8 is still all busted ass when it comes to VMware though and with no hope of redemption. The open-vmware-tools packages should be autodetected and installed for this release. This means that VMware works out of the box.

Of course, I updated the QA image *two* days ago so now I have to go do it again. *grumble*

Fedora 8 is still all busted ass when it comes to VMware though and with no hope of redemption.

]]> By: Arthur http://blog.mozilla.com/dolske/2008/04/25/apples-and-orangeness/comment-page-1/#comment-34503 Arthur Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:27:35 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/dolske/2008/04/25/apples-and-orangeness/#comment-34503 Automatic keyboard layout detection would be great but isn't going to happen soon. As far as I know PS/2 keyboards don't support layout detection at all and USB keyboards only theoretically would. But because it is cheaper to always put the same chips into a keyboard and not even changing a few bits most keyboard manufacturers just print different key labels and leave the layout setting at its default value. Really a shame. I don't know anything about laptop keyboards but often the same interfaces (PS/2, USB etc.) with a different form factor get used. Automatic keyboard layout detection would be great but isn’t going to happen soon. As far as I know PS/2 keyboards don’t support layout detection at all and USB keyboards only theoretically would. But because it is cheaper to always put the same chips into a keyboard and not even changing a few bits most keyboard manufacturers just print different key labels and leave the layout setting at its default value. Really a shame. I don’t know anything about laptop keyboards but often the same interfaces (PS/2, USB etc.) with a different form factor get used.

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