Need a way to delete/reorder easy-switch profiles.
I wrote an essay in this tiny feedback window, then pressed escape by accident, and it was all discarded. Now I have to write it all again. Would be cool if this tiny window was bigger, and didn't close without asking for confirmation when I press esc and I have written something.
There needs to be a way to delete and/or reorder easy-switch profiles on the MX mechanical keyboard. I don't like that I don't have a way to fix my "mistakes", especially because I'm still new and learning how the device works by playing around and experimenting with it. And I don't like how using "reset to factory defaults" didn't do a thing to fix my problem either.
I got the new keyboard. It's very beautiful and feels nice to type on. I just wanted to connect it to my laptop via Bluetooth to do an initial test drive. It connected, and this occupied easy-switch slot 1.
After installing the software and updating firmware (a very streamlined and nice experience, good job), and playing around with it for a bit, I decided that I wanted slot 1 to be paired with the unified receiver instead.
I inserted the unified receiver into my desktop. Then I tried all sorts of things to try to get the keyboard to pair with the unified receiver. I tried unpairing the keyboard from my laptop, but the keyboard still remembered the laptop in slot 1. I tried to use the app to reset the keyboard to factory defaults, but the keyboard still remembered the laptop in slot 1. I tried holding down easy-switch button 1 to make it enter pairing mode again, and my laptop immediately popped up a notification saying that a Bluetooth device wanted to connect. No matter what I did, it seemed like it did not want to pair with the unified receiver.
Eventually I held down easy-switch button 2, and then the keyboard paired with the unified receiver right away.
But, I still want the unified receiver to occupy slot 1, not 2. The solution was not intuitive, and I had to search online to find it, via other users who experience the same frustration. I unplugged the unified receiver from my desktop. I held easy-switch button 2 to enter pairing mode, and paired it to my laptop via Bluetooth. Now both slot 1 and slot 2 are paired to the same device via Bluetooth (for some reason, doing this didn't erase the equivalent profile from slot 1). Then, I inserted the unified receiver into my desktop again. Then I held easy-switch button 1 on the keyboard, and this time it paired with the unified receiver.
As it is now, once an easy-switch slot is set on the keyboard, it can never be unset, not even by resetting to factory defaults.
I may also be ignorant about what I am talking about, maybe I did something wrong, I haven't had much time with the product, but for an out of box experience, mine was not ideal, as I learned inadvertently the usability limitations of the design. In most cases I'm sure is a very good onboarding experience. But when I need to do something and I can't, because... because why? just because. why? because it's designed that way. It's frustrating.
All that said, now that it is set up how I want, I am loving the keyboard, it is a joy to use. I dread the occasion when I accidentally pair something to slot 3, because I want it to be empty. Forever. And if I ever assign anything to it, it will never be empty again. Forever.
Thank you.
