What will replace the void?
So what do we do after the CAPS LOCK key is gone?
Here is the only logical plan.
1. Restore the Ctrl key to its rightful place.
2. Expand the space bar again.
3. Move the Caps Lock key up beside the Scroll Lock so that the Fortran programmers don't complain too much.
4. While we're at it, move all the wierd keys - like Num Lock - up to the top row. (Thanks, TuxTemplar, for this suggestion).
So what do we do after the CAPS LOCK key is gone?
Here is the only logical plan.
1. Restore the Ctrl key to its rightful place.
2. Expand the space bar again.
3. Move the Caps Lock key up beside the Scroll Lock so that the Fortran programmers don't complain too much.
4. While we're at it, move all the wierd keys - like Num Lock - up to the top row. (Thanks, TuxTemplar, for this suggestion).
posted by Pieter Hintjens | 8:00 AM
17 Comments:
While we're at it, can we get rid of "print screen", "pause" and "scroll lock"???
Print Screen is actually pretty useful sometimes. The Scroll Lock only has one actual function for me (locking view in Excel), but I could live without it. And I have no idea what Pause/Break is for.
But I like the idea of moving the Caps Lock key up to that island so people won't complain.
Your idea sucks, and even if it didn't your passion for it speaks ill of you.
When was the last time you actually *read* a forum post typed in all caps? God knows how many man-hours that key has saved the world. It's the biggest red flag there is. (With the possible exception of misused commas. Ahem.)
In 20 years of using PCs I don't think I've ever encountered a keyboard with the left ctrl key anywhere but in the bottom left hand corner. Are you looking back to some ancient Commodore keyboard or what?
Millions of people play games on their computers, and are used to the left Ctrl key being where it has been all this time. We use the Caps Lock key as well. Since games have been the driving force behind technological progress in home computing since at least 1993, it's odd you haven't mentioned this at least as a stumbling block.
That modern use of the Ctrl key isn't second nature to you and you haven't given the gaming angle thought suggests you're not the guy to do this. Hell, in your first post you accidentally let us know you look at the keyboard while you type. How else did you type well into a line without catching the error immediately? You weren't typing from handwritten notes, or you'd have finished the sentence.
And you've never played Half-Life. Not even the tutorial.
So I'm calling you out. This is a hoax.
For me the issue is not so much the caps lock but the fact that the shift key acts to invert the caps status.
sO i wIND uP wITH clc lIKE tHIS ... after I accidentally bumped the caps lock on. You just can't know how many lines I've retyped in my lifetime because of this BS.
If you refer back to the old mechanical typewriter, you find its behavior more reasonable. If the caps lock is engaged and you shift-type a letter, you get a cap letter and then caps lock is disengaged when you release the shift key. Note that my above example would have been rendered correctly if computer keyboards acted this way. That first S would have been capped and and the rest in lower case except for the shifted letters.
Is that not sensible? Is that not simple to implement? They give me gigaHz and gigaBytes (and God love it - these new machines) but leave me heckled with a lame keyboard.
Kudos to this blog.
Amen. I am sick to death of accidentally smacking the Caps Lock key, and then finding out after the fact that I've been typing in inverted case. yOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT, RIGHT?
In a word, maddening.
We should thank Microsoft for incorporating logic into Office 2003 to correct this issue. But not even intelligent software is enough to make up for bad industrial design.
It's time for the key to go. I want my good old Ctrl key back in its rightful place. And I'll hold the shift key down if necessary.
Fight the keyboard power.
This campaign is retarded. Why not lead a movement to outlaw everything you don't personally find useful?
From all the avid-editors of the world. We love the Caps-lock. To effectively switch audio-scrubbing on and off.
From all the after-effects workers of the world. We love the Caps-lock. Turning render-preview on and off is quite the neat feature...
Now the windows-button.. Don't get me started!
Bust a CAPS in yo ass ;)
dude, YOUR A PHYSCO STOP REBELING AGAINST A BUTTON! THE KEYBOARD KNOWS NO SHAME! I NEVER USE THAT WINDOWS KEY, OR THE HOME KEY OR THEPAGE /\ OR DOWN KEYS! IN FACT THAT WHOLE LOT IS OVER THERE IS MESSED UP! PUT CTRL KEYS THERE!
dude, people use it for important things, that should be enough reason to leave it alone.
The solution for those of you that don't like your capslock key: http://images.lowes.com/product/076812/076812501615.jpg
Enjoy!
The most heinious offenders are those assinine Windows keys. Who the freak uses them? I say move those keys and Caps Lock to the island and see if people miss them. I want my long space bar back!
As for what other programs have mapped to, those mappings can change. The programs use what is available to them; they don't drive the creation of the keyboard itself.
And games have been the driving force behind computing -- oh, right! I know it's silly to argue with GAMERZ, because they are subhuman ADHD dribbling zombies whose whole existence revolves around stats, caffeine, and pwning other players, but please. Maybe when you move out of your mom's basement, you'll figure out that the rest of the world doesn't revolve around WoW.
Lastly, I don't think anyone is arguing that this works for international keyboards. Every language group will need to devise its own solution.
russet shadows -
7 million people play World of Warcraft. 2 million play Guild Wars. Maybe half a million play Half-Life. Where do you think the $150, nay $75 graphics chips that will power the next generation operating systems came from? Why do you think they no longer cost $500?
Gaming isn't a hobby anymore. With the exception of porn it's now the most popular and lucrative form of entertainment in history. Resorting to tired stereotypes only confesses a lack of interest in the subject. Do you make a habit of forming strong opinions and hurling insults about things you don't really care about?
This is the same stuff people spat at early film enthusiasts. Even the novel form was subject to this sort of talk. Sounds like thinly veiled resentment to me.
The image you paint of a socially deficient, mentally incapable shut-in with an attitude problem more closely matches the contempt you display for your culture. Its association with involvement and enthusiasm has been out of circulation for some time now.
I like Print Screen, but even my reduced laptop keyboard has all this bullcrap like Caps Lock, Num / Scroll Lock.. Pause.. And my favorite, the Context Menu button. The button that right clicks for you.
In case, you know, I'd rather take my hand off the mouse / trackpad, move it all the fucking way up to the top of the keyboard, and press the right-click menu key.
And the backwards apostrophe / tilde, which I only use for keyboard shortcuts, since they are not really part of the English alphabet.
Why do they put these idiotic keys on keyboards? WHY??? CAPS LOCK DOES ME NO GOOD, EVER!
RIGHT NOW I'M USING THE SHIFT KEY
CAPS LOCK IS BULLSHIT
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