Yes, but if we silkscreen on the case, then that enforces the default keymaps even more. Plus, there's such a thing as too much text. I don't know if I want to see all this extra text around my action buttons.
I know that sounds logical. But let me ask you this: What if the keyboard you use with your computer had 6 space keys instead of one spacebar? It would be frustrating and harder to use, wouldn't it?
Originally, the Pandora was supposed to have blue & white silk screened labels for all of the non-qwerty keys. Craig was lamenting how expensive it was to print those on the cases and how it was causing months of delay and several of us told him to just skip the labels.
I don't remember the silkscreen that we were going to have involving labels for the gaming controls.
Yes, it would be worse. But not much. With a desktop keyboard you can buy any keyboard you want and you have lots of choice, so there is absolutely no reason to compromise on this.
Typing style honestly doesn't even matter. You type completely differently with your thumbs than on a computer keyboard. The only reason people would want Dvorak on a device like this is because it is familiar, not because of any sort of typing style. Mobile device keyboards are so different from each other that you can't have a true typing style like you do on a standard keyboard.
It's not a matter of speed, it's a matter of accuracy. While playing games, your thumb will be on the ABXY buttons. When you quickly move off of it to hit the spacebar, you will be doing something already out of the ordinary to hit the space par from that position. And since it is smaller, it would be more likely to be missed. And since it is trapped in a mindfield of other keys, it's more likely your miss will also result in unwanted keystrokes.
Sure I might make mistakes and express myself slightly unclearly because I don't speak English that well (that's also why I resort to maths even more often in English than in my native language), but I think you aren't even trying. That's also what I thought in that other thread where I'm not going to answer again because it's/you're just not worth the effort.
Yes, it can be taken as an insult. I'm not denying that. I knew that when I wrote it, though it wasn't meant to be one (I wasn't trying to be nice either, just neutral, writing what I think is fact). But I wouldn't use "incompetent", at least in my language that word has a slightly different meaning, it's more in the direction of "didn't spend the effort to learn", but what I meant is "can't learn".
I'm fine with Tab as a single press key. At the same time, I didn't find the Fn+Space combo to be too bad. I was able to roll my thumb on it like it was one button press.
Agreed. Fn-space just feels so intuitive as well, I might be inclined to say that I don't want a dedicated tab button, and I use tab completion all the time.Not that I wouldn't like or use a dedicated tab button, but given the choice between a dedicated button, vs using fn-space and using that button for pretty much anything else, I would choose fn-space and anything-but-tab button.
