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I cannot fathom why the Kinesis keyboards don't have thumb shift by default. At least it's customizable.
by CarVac 5y ago
I cannot fathom why the Kinesis keyboards don't have thumb shift by default.
At least it's customizable.
- lowmagnet 5y agoHm, Ergodox don't either, at least in the suggested default layout.
- jasone 5y agoThumb shift keys are definitely an (incremental) improvement over the traditional placement, but they require a yet bigger commitment to retraining from the standard keyboard layout. I've been using Kinesis keyboards for 25 years, and finally this year committed to moving the shifts to the thumbs. This was worthwhile for me, but I hesitate to recommend the, ahem, shift to others.
- convolvatron 5y agowhy not both? despite having it mapped there for 20+ years I still don't use the thumb-shift. but for some chords its really a lot nicer.
- jasone 5y agoThe shift keys take up precious thumb cluster space, and their standard location is also useful. IMO the "best of both worlds" option is just worse.
- archarios 5y agoI think they want to keep it somewhat approachable..
- ErikCorry 5y agoThe most puzzling default is that the 'up' key is on the left and 'down' is on the right. This is the opposite of vi and ctrl-J ctrl-K for no reason that I can imagine. I always remap it.