I’ve had this cordless keyboard for nearly a year. But I only just noticed, a minute ago, that the lights for num-lock, scroll-lock and caps-lock are on the reciever!
:rolleyes:
sausage.
So let me get this straight Lobsang ; There are no lights for Caps & Num on the actual keyboard itself???
/curious
nope. I guess they thought it would save battery life that way.
Has anybody designed a keyboard yet that
a) puts the CapsLock over where the other Lock keys are?
b) has the Insert key far away from the Delete or Backspace keys?
c) has the Windows keys in a place you won’t accidentally hit when all you want is Shift?
Because these three things continually piss me off.
I keep accidentally pressing ‘#’ when I press enter for a url. luckily a url with a ‘#’ on it still works.
At work the power key is far too close to the page down key. We used to have a chore that involved pressing the page down key a lot. I turned the damn computer off many times. Now that computer runs critical software so we changed the keyboard for one without power buttons.
My new Dell keyboard is like this.
One thing that sucks is that the Home, Page Up, Page Down, End, Delete, and Insert are arranged vertically above the arrow keys rather than horizontally as is the norm.
Across the top (which is silver in contrast to the black keyboard area) are browser surfing buttons: Back, Forward, Stop, Refresh, and Home, while over to the right are Mail, My Computer, and Calculator buttons.
Off to the other side are volume/CD controls with a big volume knob in the center.
peers Mine seems to be fine. I’d be more likely to hit it when I’m going for Z, not Shift. Of course, I’m on a laptop, that’s probably skews things.
Could we get rid of the numberpad already? I never use it, anything I do use it for could probably be shifted elsewhere, and I’m sick and tired of having to turn it on when I need it, and then forgetting to turn it off and typ5ng st4ff 352e th5s.
You obviously don’t play games on your computer.
[sub](I mean real games. Not solitaire)[/sub]
Actually, yeah I do, occassionally, so if I start typing in numbers, you know I just finished playing one. Still see no reason for it. And most games don’t use it anyhow, or, as I said, other keys could be used to do the same thing.
Take FF7 for example (one of the more annoying games I have). First of all, I have to actaully turn the number pad on, since I can’t leave it on permanatenly like most people do. Default settings, all keys are on the numberpad or around it. Directions are a pain. When I go to hit the up key, I have as much of a chance of hitting 8 as I do 9, because the buttons don’t line up like they should. So I change it to the settings I prefer, directions to arrow, other keys over to FDVC, etc. Turn off number pad. Then, whenever I have to enter in a name, it switches back to the defaults, bothering me further, though just for that screen.
Of course, most games don’t even use the number pad, they use the arrow keys or the mouse. It’s the ones that pop up that use the thing for no good reason that bother me.
Oh, and bear in mind, most of these grievances are tied directly to being a laptop user, though I still don’t like FF7s defaults.
Part of the reason I was happy to dump my PoS laptop was the return of a real number pad. Accounting majors like me need a way to enter numbers quickly, though I agree that on a laptop the number pad is worthless. You can’t use it without looking and you always leave it on by mistake.
Hell – lights? Where do we get lights from? I want some…
My computer shows a message across the screen when I hit caps lock, mute, or other type buttons…
I just noticed that too, last week as a matter of fact. I’ve the Logitech keyboard and mouse combo. I just happened to notice that the light went on when I hit Caps Lock. Makes sense, no lights on the keyboard, less drain on the batteries.
I hit the caps lock a lot. I wish they would move it.
Back in The Good Old Days when Real Programmers used Real Computers…
Many keyboards had the control key above the shift key and the caps lock under it. That works a lot better in avoiding the accidental caps lock problem. In the early days of PCs, the changed position ticked people off and you can find MSDOS programs that switch them for you (but the labels are the same unless you change them).
Since it’s so rare for anyone who isn’t a complete YELLING TWIT to need all caps, I know a lot of people who just pry off the key and chuck it.
I love the numpad keys, using them as fast motion keys in a lot of programs, but never for numbers. Mrs. FtG uses them only for numbers. So there’s a numlock war going on here.
As to the MS-Windows keys: I never use them, I mainly use keyboards that don’t have them to avoid accidently hitting them.
As to the OP… there was an OP?
I use the number pad a lot. Esp on my stupid accting program and invoices.
What I would like for home use, though, is a split ergonomic keyboard with a rollerball on the left hand side (where the num pad is on the right) that is wireless.
Anyone? Anyone?
Oh, God, I’m just recalling a job I had once which involved a lot of data entry. Mainly numbers, 6-8 digit numbers, all day long. We used Digital (I think) VT-100 terminals. Text only, two color monitors, bizarre keyboards with PF1-4 keys and weird shit like that. And for some unfathomable reason, the number pad didn’t work for typing numbers. I don’t know why, but the only way to enter numbers into the one program that contained everything the company did was through the number keys at the top of the keyboard.
I recently ran across a keyboard that had something called F Lock. All the F keys had Windows functions bound to them, and you had to turn on F Lock to use the F keys. F that.
I long for my old keyboard, an old IBM buckling-spring jobbie. No winkeys, it had a great feel to it, and it had a nifty onboard calculator. I know, I could always just use the calculator program; but I liked having it there.
Yo. IBM’s OEM manufacturer for the buckling spring keyboard sells them to the public now.
What I really want is for my laptop to grow a scrolly wheel like a mouse. I don’t mind the stupid touchpad, although I add a mouse with a scrolly wheel when I’m sitting up like a human being at a desk with it. But the touchpad would be a lot easier to use if there was a dedicated scrolly wheel too.
My new HP Pavillion notebook has a touchpad with a scrollpad on the side.