TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This is ABSOLUTELY what I’ve wanted from the steam deck from the first minutes I got my first deck. Being able to work in the desktop mode without having to use the onscreen keyboard has been a fundamental limiting factor for me.
So I do have to push back against this statement:
The only intuitive way to map the qwerty keyboard to the steam deck is through the context of a specific game’s controls and what they usually map to on a keyboard.
Case in point, I want to use the steam deck as a productivity device. I need a ‘generalized’ mapping of keys.
I’m interested in knowing what you think of the oldschool T9 keyboard mapping. I’ve been thinking for a long time that something similar to this would work for the deck.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
Same!
The point I was trying to make in a somewhat obtuse and convoluted fashion is that this is a generalist mapping of keys, especially if you don’t need a mouse. You can drop this same control scheme into qutebrowser… a normal text editor, emacs in evil mode, vim and any number of programs that either have factory inbuilt vim controls or have had vim style controls added by the community.
Obviously entering text is faster with a physical keyboard or even a touchscreen keyboard, but for general, low intensity text input this mapping is extremely easy to remember and you can pick it up quick especially if you have experience with vim and wasd controls.