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New MacBook Air Fixes This Decades-Long Design Oversight
- lofaszvanitt 2y agoMacrumors... always April 1st
- teddyh 2y agoClickbait headline rescue: Apple changed the keycap symbol for the “Mute” key from just a speaker to a speaker with a strike/line through it.
- PedroBatista 2y agoOh wow! Apple keeps innovating and MacRumors keeps clickbaiting.
- rvnx 2y agoThe current icon made sense, "no sound, less sound, more sound". I wonder why the strike line is going from bottom-right to top-left though.
- raverbashing 2y agoIt matches what it shows when you press that key, so I guess it makes sense (And of course that orientation matches the usual traffic signs, like No Parking)
- teddyh 2y agoIt’s the standard design: <https://emojipedia.org/muted-speaker#designs https://emojipedia.org/muted-speaker#designs>
- ksec 2y agoI posted it here hoping to know how the original design came to place. Muted Speaker graphics design is nothing new. I wonder why it was done that way and kept that long. Even Apple's UI graphics is a stroke across the speaker.
- hnbear 2y agoBecause it’s within a set of three speaker buttons. The first has no sound, the second a less sound, the third more sound. They correspond to mute (no sound), lower volume (less), raise volume (more). Within the set of three buttons it’s perfectly sensible and intuitive. It wouldn’t make sense on its own, but on the keyboard it isn’t.
- hnbear 2y agoYes, within the set of three speaker icons it makes perfect sense. If it was a one-off it’s unintuitive, but on the keyboard where it’s used it’s fine.
- zvmaz 2y agoI won't click on the link because of the clickbait title. Thanks, but no.
- NikxDa 2y ago> The keyboard change is typical of Apple's meticulous attention to detail, even if it took more than a quarter-century to implement. I thought this paragraph was absolutely hilarious. Especially if they had such meticulous attention to detail, it wouldn't have taken decades. The article is a joke.
- bluenose69 2y agoIn my world, that row has an 'esc' key (which I type every few seconds, as a longtime vi/etc user) and a fingerprint key. The keys in between are a mystery zone. If apple move the 'control' key to the 'caps lock', well that would be sweet. The first thing I do on any computer is to remap those keys. I'm betraying my age here. I long for an old-fashioned unix-style keyboard.
- joeyagreco 2y agoI've remapped these like so: Define keymaps you want to change: https://github.com/joeyagreco/dotfiles/blob/583ba45088239928ef0d3946b4e52fd596e89e4b/.macos_key_remaps.json#L1 https://github.com/joeyagreco/dotfiles/blob/583ba45088239928... Apply keymaps: https://github.com/joeyagreco/dotfiles/blob/583ba45088239928ef0d3946b4e52fd596e89e4b/zsh/sourcing.zsh#L87 https://github.com/joeyagreco/dotfiles/blob/583ba45088239928... That's it!
- anotherhue 2y agoThere's a system option to map Caps Lock to Escape that I found very convenient.
- pseudosaid 2y agoand still the keyboard mars and etches the screen when closed and carried
- coreyh14444 2y agoGlances down at my Framework 13 keyboard. They copied Apple and did the same (bad) thing.