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Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 10:20 am
[2.05] Ctrl-ESC |
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Fang Xianfu
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 Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 11:49 pm
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� seems like an extra character added for the hell of it (since an extra key was added for the � character to fit, they had a space free). They certainly could've used it for something more useful - perhaps �?)
I do occasionally use � for the slightly annoyed smiley �_� |
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Seb
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Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 12:08 am
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Yeah, I thought of that, but �'s didn't exist when the UK keyboard was designed...
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Fang Xianfu
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Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 12:09 am
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But it's on there now...
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Seb
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Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 12:56 am
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Yeah, but only as an AltGr key combination. I suppose they couldn't remove any letters without having the chance of breaking existing software.
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slicertool
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Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 3:13 am
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We really need to scrap the current keyboard system and come up with a new one.
QWERTY 2.0! |
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Fang Xianfu
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Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 3:54 am
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Dvorak anyone?
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slicertool
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Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 4:03 am
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| Dvorak anyone? |
There is always Dvorak, but I like having a left-hand dominant keyboard layout. This allows me to do a lot of typing and work the mouse with my right hand. QWERTY is designed to slow down typing so that typewriters wouldn't bind as easily, but I think it works equally well in the mouse driven world. There is always the more surreal layouts like the frogpad which are designed for a single hand. However, I'm not sure how well that would actually work. |
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Fang Xianfu
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Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 4:13 am
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Randall Munroe of xkcd fame's got a post about one-handed keyboard layouts on his blog/blag here, which seems like a good alternative to peripherals if you like left-handed typing. Dvorak also comes in both left and right formats, depending on which hand you prefer.
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hogarius
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Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 10:07 am
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Um, we need to get back on track here...what's a good alternative for the Ctrl-Esc key?
Is something with the Pause/Break key feasable? |
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Seb
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Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 10:24 am
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Shift-Esc, as I said earlier.
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Zugg
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Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 5:20 pm
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Shift-Esc should already work, so if that's a good alternative then I'll just change the documentation.
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