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This is amusing. It wouldn’t stop people writing in caps, but they'd have to hold down the shift key whilst doing so and that just slows things down.
Taking off the CAPslock would ruin my gaming prowess; (Low as it may be…) lots of my Star Trek games depend on caps for the cloaking device. But otherwise, unless I'm typing a whole sentence that needs to be uppercase, I use shift.
I use the caps lock button all the time. I don't use the shift key because I have trained my self to use the caps lock button all the time. I know it sounds weird, but I only use the shift key when I have to, like when doing symbols. I guess that's just the way I trained myself to type.
There are probably at least dozens of games that depend on caps lock to function properly. For typing I use shift, right shift when I'm typing a cap on the left-hand side of the keyboard, and left for right
Wow, is using caps lock really that bad? I use it when I'm typing all the time. It's become part of my odd form of touch typing. I think it's convenient. My pinkie finger strays there whenever I need it. I've used it many many times throughout this post. He he! Well to each there own I suppose. I never realized how many people are bothered by a simple key. I think I may be on my own side in this one though…
If you find people typing in uppercase annoying, start a campaign for forums to add an auto-ban feature for posts like that. Actually I wouldn't be surprised if there was plugin or something for phpBB that did that already. IRC has had scripts like that for years. To me that seems like a far more sensible solution than trying to get hardware manufacturers to redesign all their keyboard layouts.
In *nixes you could only remove the caps-key from keymap, and then it wouldn't work anymore… Hmm… In Linux (Ubuntu) I found some keymaps in /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/ and /etc/X11/xkb/… I'll try to hack and remove (comment out) caps from fi-layouts I find/found, and look what happens.