From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 11 16:22:25 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9573537B401; Sun, 11 May 2003 16:22:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E21143F75; Sun, 11 May 2003 16:22:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h4BNMKm2066802; Sun, 11 May 2003 16:22:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h4BNMKJu066801; Sun, 11 May 2003 16:22:20 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 16:22:20 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Doug Barton Message-ID: <20030511232220.GA66670@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20030511151529.K13689@znfgre.qbhto.arg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030511151529.K13689@znfgre.qbhto.arg> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org cc: re@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sysinstall non-USB mouse dialog confusing X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, re@FreeBSD.org List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 23:22:25 -0000 On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 03:22:00PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > Since I think the pendulum has swung over towards USB mice being the > majority, I think a better flow for this would be something like: I don't argue that the double negative is confusing. revision 1.314 date: 2001-12-10 22:12:23; author: jhb; state: Exp; lines: +1 -1 ... user has a USB mouse, we don't need to do anything. Hence the wording "Do you have a non-USB mouse installed?" for the question. The question can be reworded as "Do you have a PS/2 or Serial mouse installed?" instead if that is preferred. We should reword the question as above. I don't think you can claim any pendulum shifting yet. Looking around my home office and a large 200 person area at work; USB mice are still an order of magnitude less prevalent (except with laptops). I don't think you can use such an argument for swaying things that way. > Enable USB support for mice, and other USB devices? [Yes] No > Enable support for a PS/2 (non-USB) mouse? Yes [No] The defaults should be "No" for both. The pre-USB mouse default of "no" was most likely with servers in mind. I don't see any more servers having USB mice than had PS/2 mice.