Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!samsung!uunet!brunix!rca From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Keyboards Message-ID: <59859@brunix.UUCP> Date: 18 Dec 90 21:50:58 GMT References: <4512@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> <59577@brunix.UUCP> <59719@brunix.UUCP> <4538@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> Sender: news@brunix.UUCP Reply-To: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science Lines: 22 In article declan@remus.rutgers.edu (Declan McCullagh/LZ) writes: >Also, in an earlier message, louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) >complained about the new layout of the keyboard. It's very painless >to remap the keyboard in 2.0 - just drag the key symbol to the correct >place on the keyboard. In fact, my keyboard right now is mapped to >Control-] (BracketRight) = | (Bar). It is completely irrelevant how easy it is to change the keymappings. First no everyone is a touch typist and thus wants to trust his eyes when it comes to the keymappings, and as long as NeXT does not have small LCDs in each of the keys that automatically change with the mapping then remapping does not solve this problem. Second, if you have to switch accounts once in a while or work at different sites, then the "user interface consitency" is close to zero since now everyone will put the |\ at a different place. Ronald ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." G.B. Shaw | rca@cs.brown.edu or antony@browncog.bitnet