Keyboard has too big repeat delay

[hauser]

When you for example try to go to the beginning of a line with arrows (Home button does not work), it takes ages (or at least few seconds).

[jackburton]

You can reduce the delay with the "Keyboard" preference application. I think this should be marked as "invalid".

[axeld]

I think the default repeat rate is much too slow, though - so maybe we want to keep this open until we changed that as a reminder :-)

[marcusoverhagen]

I don't know if this "bug" describes USB or PS/2 keyboards.

We have to keep in mind that some people might need long delays and low repeat rates in order to use the keybaord at all.

The PS/2 driver is using the PS/2 keyboard reset standard settings, that also BeOS R5 used. That is delay = 0x01 (500 ms), rate = 0x0b (10.9 chr/sec). Of cause you can overrule this with the Keyboard preferences.

While I use the fastest settings myself, I think we should keep the defaults slow.

[marcusoverhagen]

anyone with other opinion, or should we close this bug?

[axeld]

I think we should have medium defaults - that aren't too slow for *everyone*, but also not too fast for most. IOW the defaults most people can live with. Since you can easily change the settings, I don't think we need to care about minorities that cannot use the keyboard with the default settings for whatever reason.

[hauser]

This bug is fixed, isn't it?

[axeld]

I did not remember this ticket, actually, thanks for the reminder. But yes, I've made the defaults somewhat more bearable in the private/input/kb_mouse_settings.h header in hrev24059.