On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Tiago Marques <tiago...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was just looking at the layout again and just noticed the new arrow keys > placement. That is a very awkward placement. Is that definitive or can you > do something like shorten the shift key to accommodate the UP arrow? > I suppose that would be another hard sell for deployments against netbooks > with the regular placement of keys. > Best regads, > Tiago
We debated this one. A shorter shift key would be difficult to type on. We opted to emulate the hjkl vi arrangement. -walter > On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Tiago Marques <tiago...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I must ask, what's the default behavior of function keys in the new >> layout? Fn changes them to F keys, or are they F keys without Fn pressed? >> Tiago >> >> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Mikus Grinbergs <mi...@bga.com> wrote: >>> >>> > The following are the keyboard layouts and legends for these >>> > new keyboards. Much thanks to Walter Bender for developing >>> > these given a bad set of constraints. >>> > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_English_Non-membrane_Keyboard >>> >>> There may be users who wish to plug in an external keyboard. Such >>> external keyboards often have function keys grouped in sets of four. >>> Such grouping places F5 at the beginning of a row of four keys, and >>> places F6 in the middle of a row of four keys. >>> >>> Suppose users might be pressing the key for 'frame' more often than the >>> key for 'search'. Should the 'frame' function be assigned to the F5 >>> key, since on external keyboards the F5 key might be easier to locate ? >>> >>> mikus >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Devel mailing list >>> Devel@lists.laptop.org >>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel