Super/System/Windows/Whatever key (was: my impressions of F19A...)

[Jay Finger]

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suggestions there, as well as more than you ever wanted to know about
keyboards.


On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Felix Miata <mrmazda at earthlink.net> 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:Omnikey102p3248.jpg>
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/**w/index.php?title=File:**
> ErgoLogicFlexProKB2652.jpg<http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:ErgoLogicFlexProKB2652.jpg>
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