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Posted Mar 13, 2013 22:08 UTC (Wed) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784)
In reply to: Keyboard by khim
Parent article: LC-Asia: An Android upstreaming update

*scratches head* Um, it's American keyboards that have the crippled one-row-high Enter key.


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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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