What does the Key on its own do, what character does it send? Is it something standard or is it something custom?
How nice of them…
All I care to know is what code it sends to the machine so I can submit a merge to Plasma to default that key to opening krunner.
I can’t believe this came before Samsung letting you reprogram your Bixby key.
Now they just need to allow me to actually uninstall it…
why even make it in the first place? just use a keyboard shortcut or something.
So you know the built-in keyboard shortcut on Windows that opens LinkedIn? (IIRC it’s Ctrl+Alt+Win+Shift+L)
That’s because Microsoft sold keyboards for a while with “Office keys,” so you could hit Office+W for Word, Office+X for Excel, etc. All that key would do is send all those modifiers. There are plenty of unused modifier key codes they could use instead, but they did this.
I’m guessing this key works the same.
Let me?
In their (in)finite mercy.
Tux is my copilot, and never tries to be a back-seat driver.
Tux, take the wheel!
Great, more vendor specific keys that absolutely nobody needs.
As much as I don’t like these buttons, working in tech support, I can tell you far too many people can’t figure out anything more complex than “push the giant button that says the thing you want on it”, and that is even difficult to get some people to understand.
Do you guys have remote with dedicated key for specific channel? Awful!
Yeah some TV’s these days come with streaming built in and have this kind of remote. Plus if you buy a set top streaming box like a Roku, they come with this kind of remote also. It’s stupid, but a real world thing.
I ended up un mapping my Netflix button on my shield TV remote because it was super annoying for accidental presses.
Do the manufacturers even get a cut for promoting these services, or is this just what people want?
How did you do that please?
And heh, no cut, dummy. They get extorted. Netflix wouldn’t agree to allow the hi-res streaming to their devices otherwise.
Didn’t think about that, that makes so much sense.
I use Buttons Remapper and set the Netflix button to do nothing and override system. You don’t need to pay for this but there is other stuff locked behind a pay wall.
I kinda see your point, but a huge number of people have a subscription to at least one streaming service, so those buttons are a useful feature for a lot of people.
Unlikely all 4 though. Give people 1-2 they can map services two, instead of multiple wasted (branded) buttons.
Ageist take imo
Most consumers want their device to work right out of the box, mapping buttons isn’t something most of the population wants to deal with.
Don’t give them excuses, mate.
Map them during initial setup.
Please choose a service you would like to use and we will help you log in.
You have x buttons that are available to use as a shortcut to the service. Please press the button you would like to use, or press enter to skip this step.
But then you have to remember which one is which. The ones in your example are already labelled.
You work in their marketing department, don’t you?
The scenario I mentioned would have the buttons simply labeled with a number/letter. 95% of the time I don’t even look on the remote to use a button. Also, if you hit the wrong button, no big deal, you just the other/s.
Like I mentioned, stop giving them excuses.
Nobody will remember that. Too complicated for Grandma.
Label the remappable button STREAMING SERVICE or something, I don’t know.
This is literally what certain manufacturers do. Here’s a side by side of the receiver remote for my setup and the one for the TV (which has never even been connected to the internet). One has these dedicated buttons. The other just has ones labeled for streaming or similar.>!!<
I’ll add that the location of the buttons makes a significant difference. If they’re easy to hit by accident you’re more likely to have grandma launch a service she didn’t mean to and not know how to back out of it. This causes more problems than it solves.
There’s a lot of people in this thread who’ve never had to be tech support for elderly relatives.
Grandma doesn’t know what a streaming is.
The screenshot for the article depicts the copilot key on the “context menu” key
How gracious of them.
Finally, the Any key!
I’m surprised they didn’t try to sell it to an ad company.
You’re hired!
I didn’t even know that was a thing…