[rescue] Re: [geeks] ANYONE WANT A GMAIL ACCOUNT?

[Michael Free]

The centering reason is why I learned to mouse with my left hand... I'm
normally right handed, and by now it's awkward feeling to mouse "normal". I
don't switch my buttons either, left is still left. My beef is actually too
little room on the left side so the keyboard edges up on the mousepad :)

-Mike Free

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles Shannon Hendrix" <shannon at widomaker.com>
To: "The Rescue List" <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2004 1:18 PM
Subject: Re: [rescue] Re: [geeks] ANYONE WANT A GMAIL ACCOUNT?


> Wed, 23 Jun 2004 @ 13:35 -0400, Joshua Boyd said:
>
> > On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 12:16:05PM -0500, Mike Hebel wrote:
> > > > email to me please if you want one.
> > >
> > > ANYONE WANT A KEYBOARD WITHOUT A CAPS LOCK KEY?
> >
> > Why?  Are you thinking of starting a company to make them?
> >
> > I'd like:
> > * No Caps Lock key
>
> ...or just put it out of the way.  I have occasionally needed to type in
> all caps.
>
> > * Ctrl in the right place (where caps lock usually is)
>
> Yes!  What moron moved it to the bottom row where it is so hard to use?
> I can hit ALT/META with my thumbs, but CTRL is always hard for me to
> reach.
>
> > * Esc in the right place (where ` is)
>
> Where would you put ~/` then?  I also learned on keyboard with ESC where
> ~ is, but it also had terrible ~ placement.  I've not yet worked out
> where I'd like to put ~.
>
> > * Meta key (instead of Alt)
>
> Would it be useful to have both?
>
> > * Hyper and Super keys (instead of the windows keys, or whatever the
> >   icon is on the linux and mac keyboards).
>
> What is hyper and super?
>
> > * A choice of clicky 4mm throw models and non clicky 2mm throw models.
>
> * 4mm non-click
>
> * no "mush" when a key goes down if you don't use something like
>   buckling springs, make the hit hard, not a squish.  A few of the
>   old Mac keyboards got this right, as did some of the 80s terminals and
>   micros.
>
> * function keys on the left side of the keyboard
>
> * keyboard layout balanced so that if you center the keyboard on
>   the monitor, your home row is in the center of the monitor.  I
>   love my IBM Model M, but I'm off to the left of the monitor when
>   using it (keyboard won't fit on my desk centered).
>
> * make some keyboards without the right-hand numeric pad for those who
>   have no use for it.  That would also help the centering problem.
>
> > * Make ( and ) not require a shift.
> > * make { and } not require a shift.
> > * [ and ] are allowed to require a shift.
>
> Absolutely not.  People would have to retrain a lot to make this work
> out.
>
> Now for some computer mouse wish items:
>
> * 3-button optical mice without a wheel
> * bring back the old Logitech wedge shaped mice, final version was
>   called the gamer or something like that
> * if the mouse has a wheel, get rid of the irritating click, but still
>   make it stiff enough you can effectively click
> * make the mouse wheels a bit wider
>
>
>
> -- 
> shannon "AT" widomaker.com -- ["That which is overdesigned, too highly
> specific, anticipates outcome; the anticipation of outcome garantees, if
> not failure, the absence of grace." -- William Gibson, All Tomorrow's
> Parties]
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