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by blisse 3523 days ago
Absolutely it's hard to remember keys. Trying to remember hotkeys when I switch between Visual Studio, Android Studio, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe InDesign is actually quite annoying. More so with Photoshop and InDesign.

Anyways it's still nice to have.
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wallacoloo 3523 days ago
Also a big thing is undocumented shortcuts (or shortcuts for functions that I didn't even know the program was capable of). Gnome's push for standardizing Ctrl+? to display a shortcut window is a good start - hitting that in Nautilus shows me a bunch of stuff I had no idea about - but that's not likely to see much adoption outside of Gnome.

Additionally, plenty of 'legacy' applications (MATLAB's linux version, the Cadence Design Suite, etc) don't use standard shortcuts at all. I don't even know how to copy/paste in MATLAB off the top of my head - just that it sure as hell isn't Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V. Keyboard icons would be a boon for that.

In any case, if you don't look at your keyboard, you're hardly inconvenienced - you could even just disable the feature altogether. If these see widespread adoption/lower cost, it will aid some people while actually inconveniencing very few, so I see it as net positive.

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riprowan 3522 days ago
But how will the Sonder keyboard help you to remember hotkeys? Maybe I'm missing something. I can understand how it can show me that option-shift-2 is the Euro symbol but how can it show me that command-G is "Paste Only MIDI Notes"?
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brokenmachine 3522 days ago
I don't even see how it will show you that option-shift-2 is the Euro symbol. You'd have to already be holding down option-shift for it to show up, wouldn't you?

So you'd have to already know most of the shortcut.

This product seems like a solution in search of a problem.

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