*on the firmware level, to be precise: keyboard polling is commonly done by the Embedded Controller, which is flashable (not by users, generally, tho, but during the uefi update, for example). Sometimes there are separate keyboard controllers, but those are not really common.
So, if vendors want to fix this garbage, they can. Smth tells me, they don’t care, tho
attero@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
nope, the hardware / keyboard controller sends a complete key sequence instead of a distinguishable key-up and key-down event. The OS can interpret that sequence as it sees fit, but you loose the physical key-up signal when you release the key with your finger.
Corngood@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
That’s insane. Even if they did this intentionally to be as difficult as possible, they locked themselves out of being able to detect long presses?
attero@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
I’ve made an update edit: Some hardware vendors fucked up with when to send the key-up-sequence apparently so now every keyboard can behave differently.
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Though any competent manufacturer, especially when talking about laptops, would still have the application key under FN (as is shown in that example image), and give the ability for users to select which one is the default function in the BIOS.