Marcin WicharyMar 9

Do we need yet another person crashing out about Apple’s design decisions? Am I doing it only because it’s fashionable to be on Apple Design Hate Train these days? I’ll be honest: I don’t know. But I have been bothered by Apple’s approach to some of its keyboard design for a while.

Even if you don’t care about any of this, it might be a fun visual history of the most tricky of modern modifier keys: the [Fn] key. Hope you like it!

https://aresluna.org/fn

I don’t know what is Apple’s endgame for the Fn/Globe key, and I’m not sure Apple knows either

The origin and the evolution of the most confusing modifier key

Show threadLuke Dorny Mar 9
@mwichary Amazing writeup.
What a dizzying story.
Is it possible the Finder was showing the C type shortcuts with Apples in dropdown menus way back when?
Show threadAaron PrivenMar 9
@Luke story of how the Apple key became command key is here: https://www.folklore.org/Swedish_Campground.html?sort=date
Folklore.org: Swedish Campground

Show threadLuke Dorny 
@aaronpriven ah ha! So it wasn’t my brain spinning, it did exist at one time. Thank you. Ah, the early days.
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