Ben Roose wrote: > You could change a lot of these gesture chords to > outputting the alphabet, etc. but then you've lost most of the gestures > used for commands and macros. So you're back to Control-C, Control-V, etc. > If the chording could be linked to the > surface keys then you could have more than 16 combinations and they > could be independent of the gesture command chords. I hope they respond to your email about that. > A lot of companies have tried to just decrease the size of a full QWERTY > keyboard, the most extreme being the keyboards on the front of some > PDAs. It's a mad idea, keys need to be a comfortable size for the > fingers, the PDA keyboards can really only be struck accurately with a > stylus not multiple fingers. Most such keyboards are generally intended for two-thumb typing, which I've found surprisingly fast. Also, keep in mind that unless your hands are the average size for the entire world, some keyboards just won't fit. > I admit the > Mini Keyboard isn't as small as some but it still looks uncomfortable > for two hands and a QWERTY keyboard is quite slow when used with one > hand only. Practice, practice, practice. ;-) Actually the real problem would be hitting the correct key with a moving hand and a moving keyboard. Steve -- "this summer will be cool..." -- Main Hoon Na _______________________________________________ Wear-Hard mailing listhttp://www.haven.org/mailman/listinfo/wear-hard
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