Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > comp.sys.mac.system > #95784

Re: New Macs coming Octiber 27th.

Show all headers | View raw

In article <slrno0euqo.et.g.kreme@snow.local>,
 Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:

> In message <here-CCBE4F.08294019102016@news.individual.net> 
>   android <here@there.was> wrote:
> > In article <58070fb0$0$24513$b1db1813$7968482@news.astraweb.com>,
> >  JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
> 
> >> On 2016-10-19 01:28, Your Name wrote:
> >> 
> >> > Supposedly the MacBook Pro will have a touch function strip across the
> >> > top of the keyboard and the MacBook Air will have an "e-ink keyboard"
> >> 
> >> e-ink keyboard likely means that the letters on keycaps are software
> >> configurable. So single model for worldwide distributiuon. Whether that
> >> means flat touch screen keyboard or actual keys whose surface can be
> >> software configured to display any symbol, I don't know. (the later
> >> would be a neat innovation BTW).
> 
> > So adding an switchable numerical keyboard scheme with a simple toggle 
> > gesture on the touch pad wouldn't be that hard then. Oops! Sorry, that 
> > would be poweruser stuff so it won't happen... Third party addon?
> 
> You can't do that. Numpads are a strict rectangular grid. Keyboards are
> offset.
> 
> So, the 9 is exactly above the 6 which is exactly above the 3.
> 
> The P is not directly above the L ; or .

Sure you can, if you have a touch screen keyboard...
-- 
teleportation kills

Back to comp.sys.mac.system | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar

Thread

Re: New Macs coming Octiber 27th. Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2016-10-18 21:36 -0700
  Re: New Macs coming Octiber 27th. Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-10-19 18:28 +1300
    Re: New Macs coming Octiber 27th. JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-10-19 02:16 -0400
      Re: New Macs coming Octiber 27th. Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-10-19 19:28 +1300
        Re: New Macs coming Octiber 27th. Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2016-10-19 08:22 -0700
      Re: New Macs coming Octiber 27th. android <here@there.was> - 2016-10-19 08:29 +0200
        Re: New Macs coming Octiber 27th. Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-10-19 13:55 +0000
          Re: New Macs coming Octiber 27th. android <here@there.was> - 2016-10-19 16:43 +0200
            Re: New Macs coming Octiber 27th. JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-10-19 12:12 -0400
              Re: New Macs coming Octiber 27th. Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2016-10-19 11:34 -0700
                Re: New Macs coming Octiber 27th. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-10-19 19:02 +0000
                Re: New Macs coming Octiber 27th. nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-19 16:40 -0400
                Re: New Macs coming Octiber 27th. Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-10-20 04:36 +0000
                Re: New Macs coming Octiber 27th. Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2016-10-20 12:51 -0700
                Re: New Macs coming Octiber 27th. Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-10-21 08:59 +0000
      Re: New Macs coming Octiber 27th. Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2016-10-19 08:34 -0700
        Re: New Macs coming Octiber 27th. Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2016-10-19 11:51 -0400
          Re: New Macs coming Octiber 27th. Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2016-10-19 11:46 -0700
      Re: New Macs coming Octiber 27th. "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-10-19 18:17 -0500
    Re: New Macs coming Octiber 27th. Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2016-10-19 08:15 -0700
    Re: New Macs coming Octiber 27th. Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-10-19 19:15 -0400

csiph-web