I'm not alone! (die, caps lock, die!)
It seems like I'm not alone in my hatred for useless keys.
I mean, who hasn't pressed Caps Lock instead of Tab or Shift? When was the last time you voluntarily used Caps Lock?
Me, I physically extracted the Caps Lock key from my keyboards...
UPDATE: here's a suggestion I sent about a
year ago to the Microsoft keyboard team... I didn't even
remember sending that and found it by chance today:
"There are a few keys on keyboards that are really still
here for historical reasons. Typically, they are the
toggle keys that are associated with a status led: caps
lock, num lock, ScrLk and the infamous F lock. One of the
problem with these keys is that they are next to other
keys that are actually very useful and often-hit like Tab
or digits. They are very often accidentally hit, which
disrupts the flow of typing.
Possible solutions:
- Get rid of the keys or move them to a place where
it's difficult to hit them accidentally.
- Give an
option to disable these keys.
- Give them a touch
feel distinctly different from other keys
- Return
to the old behavior of these keys which is that their
toggle nature is physically reflected by the distinctive
click and persistent depressed state they used to have on
typewriters and early computers. This has the advantage of
making the status led dispensable, which is great for
wireless keyboards. By the way, why is the status led not
on the key itself: on my keyboard, it's on the bottom of
the keyboard. What's the point of that?"