jordanlundMicrosoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994
thehatfoxSo now Windows bloat is extending to the physical keyboard itself.
Looking at the Microsoft blog post they haven’t said exactly how they want keyboard layouts to change. So on a full size keyboard this could be either new key entirely, or replace an existing (and arguably more useful) key.
MudManI don't remember the last time I pressed the "right click" contextual menu key, so honestly it's not like it'll be too annoying. Unless they do replace an actually useful key, at which point I guess the people making "make Windows actually work good" apps will get to live another year.
FishFaceThat’s the key I use as a compose key
richieadlerSame here.
📛MavenI pressed it like, 20 minutes ago? It’s a pretty normal part of a lot of coding workflow, not to mention browsing, accessing context menu keyboard shortcuts without having to move your hand to the mouse for one buttonpress.
Fair enough. Alt used to be that before we decided to have a button to annoyingly pop up the menu strip. And there's still Alt Gr for that in full sized keyboards if we want to go back that way.
Alt Gr is something else. Non-english keyboards use it all day every day for typing their charactersets.
It could probably replace the right OS key, though.
KSP AtlasYeah and even on many english keyboards it is used to show special characters
Been coding in vim for decades without that key
I use it as a Compose key with WinCompose.
I use the app/menu all the time in Excel.
snoweI’ve never even heard of this key that you are talking about, yet it’s mentioned several times in this thread.
Jumutathanks for the picture. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that before. Just to check, I went over and looked at my wife’s work laptop and it’s not on that keyboard, but it is on her external keyboard, but not as a separate key, it’s part of the print screen button!