Keyboard + Symbols

February 20th, 2004
Categories: Interface, Misc., OS X
It’s a ghastly hack of a graphic, but this is what I want for a future Apple Pro Keyboard:

Ugly as it is, I think it gets the idea across

5 Responses to “Keyboard + Symbols”

  1. Eli Sarver, on February 21st, 2004 at 7:18 AM Said:

    Agreed. I can never remember which key is that funky curve thing. It drives me nuts, too.

  2. Stevie, on February 21st, 2004 at 11:27 AM Said:

    This really needs to happen, they really shouldn’t expect users to know which key goes to what symbol, when they don’t communicate that to the user in anyway.

  3. Daniel J. Wilson, on February 21st, 2004 at 12:06 PM Said:

    According to Buzz Andersen, the non-U.S. Apple keyboards DO have the symbols:

    http://blog.wilsonet.com/archives/000199.html

    Wacky.

  4. MD, on August 13th, 2004 at 8:51 PM Said:

    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=153416 — FYI, apple’s site with a complete list of symbols and their corresponding keys. I agree though, they should be on the keyboard! Not like they’d ever take the suggestion from anyone but themselves :-(

  5. Membranophonist’s Ramblings » Heads-Up Shortcuts, on September 2nd, 2005 at 4:38 PM Said:

    [...] Keyboard shortcuts would be easier to learn if Apple put the damn modifier symbols on the actual modifier keys, which is supposedly the case with non-U.S. keyboards. Why some have to suffer an inferior keyboard design while others do not is a mystery to me. [...]

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