01-18-2021, 11:47 AM
@CrowdOfOne:
I like your version better than the original design.
It also inspired me to think about internationalization and I had two ideas:
- Swap the keys left and right of the space bar. Users that need an AltGr key for their languages could (ab-)use the pine key as AltGr and have it in the usual place.
- Add combining diacritics to keys that don't have an FN mapping yet. This would enable users to type many local characters without having to tinker with keyboard mappings. The OLPC XO-1 US international layout might work as a guideline: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_English_Keyboard
These ideas are not necessarily restricted to CrowdOfOne's design.
I like your version better than the original design.
It also inspired me to think about internationalization and I had two ideas:
- Swap the keys left and right of the space bar. Users that need an AltGr key for their languages could (ab-)use the pine key as AltGr and have it in the usual place.
- Add combining diacritics to keys that don't have an FN mapping yet. This would enable users to type many local characters without having to tinker with keyboard mappings. The OLPC XO-1 US international layout might work as a guideline: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_English_Keyboard
These ideas are not necessarily restricted to CrowdOfOne's design.
