New keyboard layouts

[Tiago Marques]

I was just looking at the layout again and just noticed the new arrow keys
placement. That is a very awkward placement. Is that definitive or can you
do something like shorten the shift key to accommodate the UP arrow?

I suppose that would be another hard sell for deployments against netbooks
with the regular placement of keys.

Best regads,
Tiago

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Tiago Marques <tiagomnm at gmail.com> wrote:

> I must ask, what's the default behavior of function keys in the new layout?
> Fn changes them to F keys, or are they F keys without Fn pressed?
>
> Tiago
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Mikus Grinbergs <mikus at bga.com> wrote:
>
>> > The following are the keyboard layouts and legends for these
>> > new keyboards.   Much thanks to Walter Bender for developing
>> > these given a bad set of constraints.
>> > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_English_Non-membrane_Keyboard
>>
>> There may be users who wish to plug in an external keyboard.  Such
>> external keyboards often have function keys grouped in sets of four.
>> Such grouping places F5 at the beginning of a row of four keys, and
>> places F6 in the middle of a row of four keys.
>>
>> Suppose users might be pressing the key for 'frame' more often than the
>> key for 'search'.  Should the 'frame' function be assigned to the F5
>> key, since on external keyboards the F5 key might be easier to locate ?
>>
>> mikus
>>
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