On 05/02/2013 08:30 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
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
I have fond memories of the Omnikey keyboards.
I am currently using an SIIG keyboard with mechanical key switches.
The SIIG was flakey until I reseated the cable connector inside the
keyboard.
The SIIG is sensitive to RF fields. But it does have a good feel.
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