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on Thursday June 18 2015, @03:05AM
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El Reg reports on upcoming keyboard ideas from Toshiba:
Toshiba USA has revealed that it will add a key dedicated to summoning Cortana, Windows 10's digital assistant.
Toshiba's Jeff Barney, the company's veep and GM for all things PC in North America, says the new button will appear on every keyboard the company sells.
PCWorld reports that "the key will sit in the upper left area, near the function keys".
A quick glance at the many keyboards in Vulture Souths eyrie suggests that this means the ESC key is in peril.
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(Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday June 18 2015, @11:56AM
Any good tip for means to change the text on keyboard buttons?
First Microsoft mangled the keyboard with that shitty "Windows key", then they made them listening friendly with Bluetooth, to top it of they now will remove the Esc key?
And Google will make evil by doing away with the Caps Lock [forchrome.com] key?
Fuck that!, leave my fucking keyboard alone.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday June 18 2015, @12:59PM
There's a difference in classes of users. There are regular users, who primarily do passive, entertainment activities that require few interactions, and people who need computers to get work done. So far that the first camp has had lots of options with smartphones and tablets and now smartwatches and such. The trouble is when the makers of regular computers want to try to follow in those footsteps and be one of the cool kids, too. On that score, I have rather thought things have been moving in the wrong direction for a while now.
I like vi because I don't have to take my hands out of typing position. I like the vimperator plugin for FF and chrome because I can navigate the web with the same keys. I am much more productive that way. Still on occasion I need to mousey click on something, but that's OK because I have a Thinkpad with the eraser nub in the middle and don't have to get out of typing position much. Making me touch the screen to do that, as for example a Surface would, is a big step backward. Getting rid of the ESC key would be no less so. Instant no-sale.
It would be nice to see industrial designers approach physical interfaces from the perspective of making them easier to use for people who need them to work, ie., us.
Washington DC delenda est.