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Well, since I got my Pandora a lot of people keep asking what am I thinking about this keyboard layout. Let's make an experiment, I am typing from Pandora (of course) now, and from THIS word I won't be correting my words. so you will see how much butons do not react to presses being too "light" or too fast. But also me - not being used to this keyboard. That's a one way to measure.
Next - the Ctrl and Alt war: I must tell you that their positin between the nubs is quite good - they are within reach and used rarely enough to justify the weird finger combinations to achieve some shortcut. I didn't use vim or screen much, yet, so I can't tell you how it works with them. That wuold be in keyboard review part 2, after I used Pandora for a while. I could still argue that , . are not used often eough, but that's a moot oint, and Alt, Ctrl are in a well reachablle place.
Another ting: Tab and Shift - well they do bother me. I almost never use Shift on left side, and notice that on normal keyboard Shift is bigger on right side. But remapping all this is a quite comlex puzzle. For example if I changed places bewteen Shift and Fn I'd have Shift on right, but then all Fn symbols will be wrong. because they are optimized for Fn being on right. Maybe it would be good to hack keyboard driver so that when space is pressed together with some other key - then it's interprted as shift.
Typing with thumbs, well OK let me try that - I just picked Pandora from the table and typr with thumbs now. It is doable, but I am hating Shift even more now, especially when I tried to type letter "S". But tha could be solved with sticky keys, let me try that... (I enable sticky keys on accessebility options) OK now I can type "S" with just one thumb. But how did all those spaces in previous sentence get there (you can't see them, HTML is merging them together, you would need to reply and look at that part)? That must be because I'm not used to type with thumbs and tried to hold Pandora with my thumb and it happened too fast to notice this. Oh and the sticky keys aren' t working anymore now, they got automatically disabled for some reason, let me show you by typing "s". See?
Nubs - I redefined them to be a mouse scroll and mouse movenent, LR buttons are now mouse buttons, I'm missing middle mouse button now, pressing both buttons doesn't emulate middle button. There's an option for that (typing with Pandora on table now, thumb typing isn't for me) option for middle buttons in xorg.conf, but The "Mouse" section is missing from Pandora's xorg.conf so I don't konow where to add option:
So definitely I can live with this keyboard. For basic stuff it' OK. However for more complex stuff, like coding in a plane on Pandora - I shuold start looking for some nice bluetooth keyboard. Or practice more with this keyboard, so watch out for eventual "keyboard review part 2"!
Next - the Ctrl and Alt war: I must tell you that their positin between the nubs is quite good - they are within reach and used rarely enough to justify the weird finger combinations to achieve some shortcut. I didn't use vim or screen much, yet, so I can't tell you how it works with them. That wuold be in keyboard review part 2, after I used Pandora for a while. I could still argue that , . are not used often eough, but that's a moot oint, and Alt, Ctrl are in a well reachablle place.
Another ting: Tab and Shift - well they do bother me. I almost never use Shift on left side, and notice that on normal keyboard Shift is bigger on right side. But remapping all this is a quite comlex puzzle. For example if I changed places bewteen Shift and Fn I'd have Shift on right, but then all Fn symbols will be wrong. because they are optimized for Fn being on right. Maybe it would be good to hack keyboard driver so that when space is pressed together with some other key - then it's interprted as shift.
Typing with thumbs, well OK let me try that - I just picked Pandora from the table and typr with thumbs now. It is doable, but I am hating Shift even more now, especially when I tried to type letter "S". But tha could be solved with sticky keys, let me try that... (I enable sticky keys on accessebility options) OK now I can type "S" with just one thumb. But how did all those spaces in previous sentence get there (you can't see them, HTML is merging them together, you would need to reply and look at that part)? That must be because I'm not used to type with thumbs and tried to hold Pandora with my thumb and it happened too fast to notice this. Oh and the sticky keys aren' t working anymore now, they got automatically disabled for some reason, let me show you by typing "s". See?
Nubs - I redefined them to be a mouse scroll and mouse movenent, LR buttons are now mouse buttons, I'm missing middle mouse button now, pressing both buttons doesn't emulate middle button. There's an option for that (typing with Pandora on table now, thumb typing isn't for me) option for middle buttons in xorg.conf, but The "Mouse" section is missing from Pandora's xorg.conf so I don't konow where to add option:
Code:
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
So definitely I can live with this keyboard. For basic stuff it' OK. However for more complex stuff, like coding in a plane on Pandora - I shuold start looking for some nice bluetooth keyboard. Or practice more with this keyboard, so watch out for eventual "keyboard review part 2"!
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