Im pretty sure you could look up key remappers and do that already
Comment on Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994
Psythik@lemmy.world 8 months agoYeah and I already do. But why make it a key combo when you could just have a single dedicated key instead?
It’s not like anyone actually uses the menu key or the right Start key anyway. 'Bout damn time Microsoft remaps them to something more useful. Next they should do the Pause/Break key. That one hasn’t been useful since the DOS days.
HerzogVonWiesel@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Psythik@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yes but you’re missing my point entirely. What I’m saying is that I’m happy that Microsoft is making it official, so that I don’t have to remap anything.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 8 months ago
MS used to sell a keyboard with a custom button to start your web browser.
Now that web browsing is common but that key has been removed from keyboards, do you still remap a hotkey to bring up Firefox?
QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m ambivalent about all this, but I think the distinction is that a web browser button would simply open a persistent window, and therefore only really needs to be used once or twice per “session”. Copilot is designed to act more like the Start menu, in that it is opened frequently and disappears after each use.
That being said, and as much as I use ChatGPT myself, it’s hard to see this as anything more than an easy way to further the perception of Microsoft as first-class AI company, thereby justifying its high stock price for a corporation with limited new growth opportunities.
kurcatovium@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Hey! I do use menu key regularly! And so pause and scroll lock! Print creen is obvious and everyone uses it. Right? Right!? RIGHT?!?
psud@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Print screen used to be a good button for screen capture/window capture. But now the various screenshot apps do the job better. Ctrl+Prt Scr is maybe still good for being fast
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 8 months ago
Pause is usually the compose key (diacritics starter) on Linux desktops. But I’ll agree about Scroll Lock, that one is truly useless.
psud@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Excel uses scroll lock to
make people think it’s brokenlock the scroll bars in case you don’t want to be able to see the rest of your sheet
ganoo@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
We should also get a chrome key And a windows store key And a Microsoft.com link key A key to open minecraft Why not a key for launching the “windows action menu” or whatever they call it A key to open the control panel How about a key to open the settings menu?
Why are we limiting ourselves? We should have 500 keys and at least 300 of them should be unique to windows.
magnus@lemmy.ahall.se 8 months ago
Try a stream deck, each key is also a small monitor for customizable button actions.
Psythik@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Because none of those keys are useful. AI is useful and isn’t Microsoft exclusive.
Once keyboards start adding the key, I’d be legitimately surprised if the major Distros didn’t eventually follow suit and integrate AI into their platforms as well. Hell, it might get built right into your favorite desktop environment in a couple years.
Beefytootz@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I get your point, AI is useful for some people, but what about the rest of us who don’t want it or use it? I genuinely use the menu key and would prefer to keep it functioning as it does and now I’m going to be forced to lose that key and now I have to deal with AI? It has no use for me. I also don’t want something actively watching and “thinking” about what I’m doing. I want my computer somewhat dumb and to only do what I tell it to. If you want a keyboard with a dedicated AI button, get one with a macro pad or something. Don’t inconvenience the rest of us by forcing a nonsensical change
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Their point was that you could just assign the scroll lock key (or whatever) to open ChatGPT instead because who the fuck uses scroll lock?
Psythik@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Funny you say that, cause as a FL Studio user I hit that key all the time. (It switches between auto/manual scrolling of playlist, i.e. it locks/unlocks auto scrolling.)
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You think you are joking but I’m the 90’s that was a thing for keyboards.
www.ebay.com/itm/363221421164?chn=ps&norover=…
kux@lemm.ee 8 months ago
it had a few hardcore fans, a quick search for RT9450 shows people still trying to get that to work up to about 2020
honestly i wouldn’t mind having another scroll wheel/bar on the keyboard somewhere, in the middle above the function keys might be cool
also fyi that link can be tidied to www.ebay.com/itm/363221421164