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Optimize keyboards - space on all for --More--, custom keyboard for most-frequent keys? #61

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago
Some keys are used much more frequently than others, or are frequently used in 
combinations that are inconvenient right now. An example is anything requiring 
picking an item from inventory - it frequently requires the letter command, a 
switch to the symbols keyboard for '?', and a switch back to the letter 
keyboard for entry of a letter and/or pressing space to move through a 
multi-page list.

A custom keyboard layout might have spacebar (for paging), letters afiqsxz and 
the shift key, symbols .,@:, and ^P for reviewing those easy-to-miss messages. 
Navigation keys could be skipped, since the edges of the screen can be used. 
Some commands (a, q, z) might require shifting to another keyboard to select an 
item, but even so it'd be fewer keyboard shifts since it'd be (at worst) 
"a?(keyboardshift)(letter)"

Original issue reported on code.google.com by fencep...@gmail.com on 4 Nov 2010 at 4:18