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KeyboardKeyboardPosted Mar 13, 2013 21:31 UTC (Wed) by khim (subscriber, #9252)In reply to: Keyboard by tialaramex Parent article: LC-Asia: An Android upstreaming update
I can scarcely begin to imagine how somebody thought this was a good idea, unless perhaps they had literally never seen a non-US keyboard or used a non-English language. I'm pretty sure they have seen non-US keyboard and wondered just why this keyboard wastes valuable space and cripples Enter key just to introduce second backslash. Guy from Israel or Russia can do that just as easily as a guy from US, you know: it may surprise you but lots of languages don't need this 102ND key and for them it's just "#@^%%#@(*!@ second backslash".
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Keyboard Posted Mar 13, 2013 22:08 UTC (Wed) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784) [Link] *scratches head* Um, it's American keyboards that have the crippled one-row-high Enter key.
Keyboard Posted Mar 14, 2013 7:27 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] You are correct, of course: most US keyboards sacrifice Enter key to make Backspace larger (as if I'm obsessed with deleting stuff). My bad. European keyboards sacrifice Left Shift size which is even worse: I can still hit small US-style Enter key with my little finger, but small Shift is a disaster since attention is usually on other hand. Ideally I want classic layout similar to this one (with two large Shifts, and large Enter L-shaped Enter) which is rare enough with 101-keys-layout keybords (nowadays they have 104 keys because Microsoft added three keys) and I'm yet to see even a single 102-keys-layout keyboard (with 105 keys) with all three.
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