[IAEP] 2 design proposals: home view, discoverable shortcuts

Walter Bender walter.bender at gmail.com
Sun Mar 22 17:23:23 EDT 2009


On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Luke Faraone <luke at faraone.cc> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Jameson Quinn <jameson.quinn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Did I leave anything out, or not explain anything?
>
> What about CapsLock, which Negroponte explicitly left out of the XO-1, and
> which causes at least as much confusion as NumLock.
>

You should blame me for that one. The idea was that we would interpose
rendering to the screen as ALL CAPS for everything based on a
preference set in the control panel--something we never got around
to--for those who were just beginning to learn their letters. Is there
any other reason to have a Caps Lock key?

-walter

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