On Fri, May 1, 2020, at 8:07 AM, Alexander Ploumistos wrote: > Hi Mark, > > And welcome aboard. > I've been using a tweaked Legion Y520-15IKBN for a year and a half now > and I'm a happy camper. I can't say that I understand hardware > vendors' marketing decisions, like putting a heftier price tag on a > "professional" machine, whereas a "gaming" laptop with the same specs > costs almost 1000€ less, but this particular Legion model line is > pretty inconspicuous, so you can work anywhere, without people > staring. > > One thing that I'd like to see, is linux support for the "energy > manager" features - it's pretty much the only reason I've allowed This "just works" on F32 for me using the tlp package to set charge thresholds. The only thing acpi_call is needed for is recalibration, which I don't do often. V/r, James Cassell > windows to take up space on my laptops and I know I'm not the only > one. I think that someone had written a kernel module that somehow > managed to communicate with the battery controller, but since it's out > of tree and we get quite a lot of kernel updates in Fedora, it's no > fun rebuilding everything every 2-3 days. Is that something that's > pretty standard among different model lines? > > Oh and another thing, which is a peeve with laptop keyboards in > general. I make full use of pretty much every key on a standard > keyboard and I usually map the compose key to scroll lock, which I use > a lot. Whenever I have to move to a laptop, I feel like someone has > chopped off one of my limbs and seeing dedicated keys for things like > recording and streaming one's gaming session drive me mad. About a > decade and a half ago, there were distributions that offered a > rudimentary UI to do key remapping, but along the way, as linux went > through different methods to manage input devices, that sort of thing > was dropped. Now that evdev seems to be with us for the foreseeable > future, is there any chance you might consider such a feature, perhaps > in collaboration with GNOME? Even if it's something buried under 15 > menus in Tweaks, I'd be happy. > > Best regards _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
