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Mac Forum / General / Hardware / March 2008Keyboards with small key caps?
Do other people have the same problem I do with large key caps? I find that the trend to have most of the area of a modern keyboard taken up with key caps is leading to typos. It seems that my large fingertips catch the corners of the key caps to introduce extraneous characters. Smaller caps, such as were found on old typewriters, would, I believe, reduce that problem. The way keyboards are built these days, it would be impossible for fingers to go between two keys in a way to jam key bars on an typewriter. I am currently using a keyboard that came with my Mac Pro. It has large square caps. It would be great to have replacement caps with relatively small projections in the center for the fingertips while the rest is recessed below the surrounding surface. What is out there for me? Bill > Do other people have the same problem I do with large key caps? I find > that the trend to have most of the area of a modern keyboard taken up [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > What is out there for me? More recent Apple keyboard designs ignore occasional hits to the Caps Lock key. You have to press and hold for a moment before it is accepted.  Signatureclvrmnky <mailto:spamtrap@clevermonkey.org> Direct replies to this address will be blacklisted. Replace "spamtrap" with my name to contact me directly. > More recent Apple keyboard designs ignore occasional hits to the Caps > Lock key. You have to press and hold for a moment before it is accepted. > -- I have noticed that and found it annoying. I did find that unlocking is faster than locking. That should be programmable if one know how. In any event, the extra characters I get is much more annoying. Bill >> More recent Apple keyboard designs ignore occasional hits to the Caps >> Lock key. You have to press and hold for a moment before it is accepted. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > In any event, the extra characters I get is much more annoying. You are welcome to your opinion, of course. Personally, I think we should dump the caps lock key altogether. It is an artefact of pre-computing keyboarding and has no place on a computer keyboard. There is no reason that the same functionality can't be replaced by an industry standard key-combination. If you need to type more than 1-2 words in all caps on a regular basis, you are a spammer or a mainframe developer. Both groups will have many workarounds, while the majority of us can speed-type without worrying about enabling the caps lock key. This is a win for usability. Signatureclvrmnky <mailto:spamtrap@clevermonkey.org> Direct replies to this address will be blacklisted. Replace "spamtrap" with my name to contact me directly. > >> More recent Apple keyboard designs ignore occasional hits to the Caps > >> Lock key. You have to press and hold for a moment before it is accepted. [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > This is a win for usability. There's an option in the Keyboard and Mouse control panel for disabling it entirely, or setting it to be something else. On older keyboards, I used to stick a shim under Caps Lock to prevent it from operating. Isaac > Both groups will have many > workarounds, while the majority of us can speed-type without worrying > about enabling the caps lock key. Speed without accuracy is bunk. Improve your accuracy and you won't have to bitch about your specific problems. SignatureHey! It compiles. Ship it. Bob in Central California > Speed without accuracy is bunk. Improve your accuracy and you won't have > to bitch about your specific problems. This gets me back to my original question. Does having large keys lead to errors by hitting key corners? Bill > This gets me back to my original question. Does having large keys lead > to errors by hitting key corners? > > Bill For some people: Yes For some people: No For the rest: It don't matter SignatureHey! It compiles. Ship it. Bob in Central California > Do other people have the same problem I do with large key caps? I find > that the trend to have most of the area of a modern keyboard taken up [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > What is out there for me? You do know, you can disable the caps lock key if you want? If you are using Mac OS X, go into the preferences panel and select "keyboard and mouse" Click on the "keyboard" tab and then click on the modifier keys button. Change "Caps Lock" to "no action" and you are all set. |
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