Re: Keyboard LED applet

2013-04-22 Thread Tim
Tim: >> In fact, I'd rather that *all* keyboards had useful LEDs. Put the damn >> caps lock LED next to the caps lock key, or preferably in it (as my old >> Amiga did). Likewise, for num lock. Ian Pilcher: > My previous laptop (ThinkPad T510) had the caps lock LED embedded in the > key, and I ha

Re: Keyboard LED applet

2013-04-21 Thread Ian Pilcher
On 04/21/2013 12:52 PM, Tim wrote: > In fact, I'd rather that *all* keyboards had useful LEDs. Put the damn > caps lock LED next to the caps lock key, or preferably in it (as my old > Amiga did). Likewise, for num lock. My previous laptop (ThinkPad T510) had the caps lock LED embedded in the key

Re: Keyboard LED applet

2013-04-21 Thread Tim
Ian Pilcher: >> Just when you think that laptop manufacturers couldn't go any farther >> off the rails, Lenovo has apparently decided that physical keyboard >> status LEDs are just too darn expensive. g: > if you consider the oem cost for an led and associated circuit cost > $0.10 and they build r

Re: Keyboard LED applet

2013-04-19 Thread Ian Pilcher
On 04/19/2013 11:00 AM, Colin J Thomson wrote: > Use the "add widgets" option to download new widgets and do a search for > "lock > keys" of which there are two available, both work very well. Excellent! (I couldn't figure out the correct search term.) Thank you! -- =

Re: Keyboard LED applet

2013-04-19 Thread Colin J Thomson
Hi Ian, On Friday 19 Apr 2013 00:04:50 Ian Pilcher wrote: > Just when you think that laptop manufacturers couldn't go any farther > off the rails, Lenovo has apparently decided that physical keyboard > status LEDs are just too darn expensive. > > Does anyone know of a keyboa

Re: Keyboard LED applet

2013-04-19 Thread Rejy M Cyriac
pressed instead of . ;-) > >> Does anyone know of a keyboard LED applet/widget that can be used with >> KDE? (An actual Plasma widget is obviously preferred, but I'll take >> anything that can run in the system tray.) You could try out the 'keyboard indicator'

Re: Keyboard LED applet

2013-04-18 Thread g
cost $0.10 and they build runs of 10,000 of said laptop, they would save $1,000 per run. could be they figured that i one is typing and letters change to upper case, one should realize that was pressed instead of . ;-) Does anyone know of a keyboard LED applet/widget that can be used with KDE?

Keyboard LED applet

2013-04-18 Thread Ian Pilcher
Just when you think that laptop manufacturers couldn't go any farther off the rails, Lenovo has apparently decided that physical keyboard status LEDs are just too darn expensive. Does anyone know of a keyboard LED applet/widget that can be used with KDE? (An actual Plasma widget is obvi