Keyboard icons

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Wed Apr 4 12:17:46 UTC 2007


Le Mer 4 avril 2007 13:58, Matthias Clasen a écrit :
> On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 10:32 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>
>> >>
>> > Using number on top and alphabet on bottom. Comment?
>>
>> you lose, number row is another part that varies a lot between layouts
>> ;)
>>
>
> I really fail to see how resemblance or lack thereof of a 3-key icon
> to any real keyboard layout is relevant here. Are you claiming that
> people will not recognize the icon because it disagrees with their
> keyboard layout ? What is the point here ?

The first one was real bad because it was clearly qwerty¹. Changing the
last one is probably nitpicking

¹ and yes in countries not using qwerty anything that looks like hardcoded
qwerty has very bad associations. Too many badly coded software reverting
to qwerty at the worst time leave bad feelings

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot




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