For the record, gmplayer is a gigantic pile of shit. Like something from GNOME 0.1. None of this fancy ‘keyboard navigability’ (even once I found the keyboard docs on the web, most of them didn’t work, I’m sure I wasn’t in some mode or something) or ‘just working’ (failed to figure out a working video driver, or notice that I had a DVD in the drive) or ’settings that remember themselves’ (select the video driver, crash 45 minutes later, oops, have to select the video driver again) or ’stability’ (aforementioned crash). Of course, it actually plays the subtitles on the movie Krissa rented last night, which is more than I can say for totem, and the audio, which is more than I can say for my good old-fashioned HW DVD player. ARGGGH.
(No, I’m not quite ready to give up on DVDs altogether. I know I suck.)
At one point, generally frustrated, I chucked my wireless keyboard across the room. So… anyone have recommendations for a small wireless keyboard/integrated mouse combo? Not the gigantic MS wireless keyboards. Something basically similar to this, except mechanically reliable, or this but with a nipple/trackpad. I have a nagging feeling it doesn’t exist, unfortunately, but I’d love to be wrong
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Like this?
http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products/details/NO/EN,CRID=2166,CONTENTID=12339
I’d prefer the first one, but why nobody do again the small ibm button in the centre of the keyboard ? It was so easy to use when you know how to type without watching your fingers…
Hum, and this one ? http://www-131.ibm.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=-124&storeId=10000124&langId=125&dualCurrId=1000075&categoryId=2581898&productId=8717673
and with the « pavé numérique » (in french, sorry…) http://www5.pc.ibm.com/fr/products.nsf/wwwPartnumLookup/_31P8954?OpenDocument
Logitech’s DiNovo edge is excellent. The placement of the “touchwheel” is a bit weird, and don’t *EVER* take of the plastic cover if you don’t want to windex the keyboard every day.
I have the IBM one with the numpad, it is really nice to have the same keyboard as the laptop with the trackpad in the center, the only thing is that the quality of the keyboard is lower than the quality of the keyboard of the original laptop. It looks like they are not using the same parts for the laptop keyboards and for those usb versions. This is a shame…
Loic/Olivier: is it wireless, though? It looks like it is usb/wired, at least the version I can find on the English website. Otherwise, would be perfect.
Sverre, Adrian: wow, that looks great. Exactly what I’m looking for- wireless, builtin trackpad, and even a charging dock. Wins all around. (Wish it were 1/2 the price.) It looks like it doesn’t work great with Linux yet, from my googling- is your experience different?
The keyboard for the Gateway-AOL internet appliance should fit what you’re looking for, however it uses infrared and might be a bit hard to find since they stopped making them 7 years ago. On the plus side it does work with Linux as I was running linux on mine.
http://www.beststuff.com/images/articles/111000f.jpg
Yeah, gmplayer’s GUI is plain CCCP. But, it plays stuff - the primary task of players. It handles the newest codecs like VC-1 better than anything else and rarely breaks (everything comes bundled, even dvd-decss). I wish totem was as good.
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