timothy's Journal: Idea: the place for keyboard indicator LEDs is on the bezel

They should be bright enough to see; use a light sensor, maybe? Default is OFF (you don't want a "Situation normal" LED on all the time when you're watching a movie on the laptop); ON is for caps lock / numlock / etc. IOW, situations where it being on would cause annoyance if you expected the default.

(On my netbook, the indicators are in the lower right of the keyboard half of the open case -- that is, right where the user's right wrist blocks seeing them. On my Toshiba Satellite, the caps-lock indicator is embedded on the Caps Lock key -- again, unreadable when typing, because blocked by hands -- but so dim as to be useless anyhow. Design idiocy :))

Thanks, that's really a good idea

[drachenstern]

Hopefully this gets posted to the front page for discussion, this is a really good idea.

My LEDs are worthless

[mcgrew]

My netbook has the lights under my left wrist, the keyboard on my work computer's LEDs aren't visible unless you lean over the keyboard.