woodelf wrote:
M H Stein wrote:
The 'windows' key's never bothered
me; how does it disturb you?
The fact that they are between CTRL and ALT makes it
painful for the
few games I have played that require use of such keys for say walk VS
shoot.
It is a pretty awful bit of design; you'd think manufacturers would have
learnt something in so many years.
I used to rip the Windows keys off my desktop keyboards so that I didn't catch
them occasionally - unfortunately that's a bit difficult on this laptop, but
I've got the left Windows key remapped to the pound symbol anyway (it's a
US-built laptop). (Stupid laptop has no right-hand CTRL key, but the
right-hand Windows key's a bit too far from the cursor keys to make it
worthwhile remapping that one)
Yeah, I know this is probably OT. I find it interesting though that we have
keyboards for a generic system where some of the keys are specific to a single
OS; particularly as the majority don't seem to actually use them anyway (can
you buy a PC keyboard without them these days?). There's probably some
interesting history as to why it came about...
cheers
Jules