US Navy will replace touchscreen with mechanical controls on its destroyers

Re:US Navy will replace touchscreen with mechanical controls... by trilila on Monday August 12, 2019 @02:34AM (#20672968)

Fully touch capable keyboards would be awesome actually. Imagine remapping keys according to apps (games, editing, coding). I am not sure why you are using the macbook pro as a reference, as the only issues i had with it are related to the classic keyboard, not the touch.

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Re:US Navy will replace touchscreen with mechanical controls... by kokx on Monday August 12, 2019 @04:30AM (#20673577)

If you mean that you have physical keys which you can remap, such as the Optimus Maximus keyboard concept [1], that would indeed be a great idea.

However, I would not be certain if I could type well on a full-touch screen keyboard such as the Optimus Tactus [2]. I do my typing blindly, having a touch screen would constantly require me to find the correct position for my fingers by look. While on a normal keyboard that is easy to do by touch.

[1]: https://www.artlebedev.com/optimus/maximus/ [2]: https://www.artlebedev.com/optimus/tactus/

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Re:US Navy will replace touchscreen with mechanical controls... by yoz-y on Monday August 12, 2019 @05:57AM (#20673982)

I wonder how much would it be possible to touch-type on a touchscreen. I don't look at my phone keyboard anymore and type quite fast on it.

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Re:US Navy will replace touchscreen with mechanical controls... by Shorel on Monday August 12, 2019 @11:55AM (#20676590)

Shorthand writing should also work very fast on modern phone screens.

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