On 2013-05-01 22:06 (GMT-0700) Adam Williamson composed:
On Fri, 2013-04-26 at 15:39 -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote:
Adam Williamson wrote:
> I've never quite got the 'being proud of having a keyboard with no Super
> key' thing. It's a handy key. But anyway, this is a general introductory
> video to GNOME aimed at very new users; if you're geeky enough to have
> gone out and carefully sourced a keyboard with no Super key, you are not
> the target audience of the video, so that doesn't really seem to be a
> problem.
Based on the pictures that DJ posted later, it looks like his keyboard
is the same IBM model M that I have, and I sure as heck didn't "care-
fully source" a Super key-less keyboard. As far as I know, the Windows/
Super key hadn't been invented when my keyboard was manufactured back in
1996. (If it had been invented, it certainly wasn't ubiquitous.)
Okay, okay, if you're still using one, you get a pass. But come on,
understand that about 99% of existing PC keyboards have a
Super/System/Windows/Whatever key, and it seems kind of a waste of
effort to hack up the video just to acknowledge those of us who still
have prehistoric keyboards. I mean, can we agree it's a bit nitpicky?
I too use a heavy, ancient IBM keyboard, but only for lack of adequate
quantity of better. My (3) primaries also were acquired last century. I'd
love to have extra keys if I could find any affordable models made for touch
typing, with:
CAPSLOCK in typewriter location beside spacebar (via option or otherwise)
traditional inverted T cursor pad,
large "L" enter/return key,
oversized backspace key, AND
all function keys usable by touch in conjunction with any or all "shift" keys
using a single, non-giant hand
like these:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Omnikey102p3248.jpg
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:ErgoLogicFlexProKB2652.jpg
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