From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 29 00:24:41 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87F55106566C for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:24:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from oproxy3-pub.bluehost.com (oproxy3.bluehost.com [IPv6:2605:dc00:100:2::a3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4616F8FC0C for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:24:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 20559 invoked by uid 0); 29 Mar 2012 00:24:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box543.bluehost.com) (74.220.219.143) by oproxy3.bluehost.com with SMTP; 29 Mar 2012 00:24:40 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=apotheon.com; s=default; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version:References:Message-ID:Subject:To:From:Date; bh=Hs/s72llg5wJoXDxsaNj5JEQUQhfWLO6tt2rmg3YUpc=; b=JOGjBY1jGJ6knVsukFsNt1wWPwB7HDbMXo8VKz/IDKqjKWsWvzhk8mSgNDGFh3NeQ6fPxf08TfIQuGfk3ieIMDDRx9RT71nsgLymX807NvpCuGeJKPekKp/cG59CEcOR; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=localhost) by box543.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1SD3AO-0006df-GV for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:24:40 -0600 Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:24:40 -0600 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20120329002440.GA9313@hemlock.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4F6FACB5.5030900@dichotomia.fr> <201203260021.q2Q0LpOF084377@mail.r-bonomi.com> <20120326154223.GA11501@hemlock.hydra> <4F70F6AD.4000107@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <4FAC8965-EF32-4857-BA8E-936B357DE308@mac.com> <4F7117D2.70405@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20120327194017.GA22276@thought.org> <20120328151954.GA13609@hemlock.hydra> <20120328232451.GB22958@thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120328232451.GB22958@thought.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Identified-User: {2737:box543.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.com} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with perrin@apotheon.com} Subject: Re: Vivaldi Tablet X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:24:41 -0000 On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 04:24:51PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 09:19:54AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > > I think learning a chording keyboard is going to be much more of an > > obstacle than using a QWERTY keyboard, considering you can hunt-and-peck > > on a QWERTY keyboard, but you have to know the chords to do anything on a > > chording keyboard. > > i dont have a clue what a chording keybd is; will google > after a long nap1 also, i have lost track of who posted the > 'fentek' page, but that is where i got my present mine. A chording keyboard is a keyboard or other button-press interface with fewer keys so it can fit on a smaller device, where many keycodes are gotten by way of combining presses of multiple keys rather than a single key as on a standard QWERTY keyboard. Thus, for instance, where on a QWERTY keyboard you get a capital A by holding the Shift key and pressing the A key, you might on a chording keyboard also get a lower-case A by holding down some key and pressing another key. This works for keyboards with fewer keys because there are many potential combinations of keys that could be used; if all keycodes are achieved by a two-button "chord", all the keys on a standard 101-key keyboard, plus all Alt-, Shift-, and Ctrl-chord keycodes, could be simulated by a mere twenty keys. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]