01-18-2021, 04:08 PM
Folks, I've spent a weekend prototyping and redesigning proposed keyboard layout for PinePhone.
Physical keyboard could be a killer feature for PinePhone however seeing draft layout in latest blog post - I find it disappointing considering how sensitive we as a power users are to non-standard layouts and while former layout could work enough for chat purposes, it completely fails for any devops/programming task (constant pain to enter semicolon, brackets or even any math operator, etc). We should really strive for something better!
I'd really appreciate your "votes" - just by making regular keys ~1.2mm narrower we could have almost perfectly workable standard ANSI layout with a very few compromises:
![[Image: AZz2itb.png]](https://i.imgur.com/AZz2itb.png)
IMHO this would definitely make a better product and.. since it'd have more keys - it's ok even if it'd cost a bit more
Physical keyboard could be a killer feature for PinePhone however seeing draft layout in latest blog post - I find it disappointing considering how sensitive we as a power users are to non-standard layouts and while former layout could work enough for chat purposes, it completely fails for any devops/programming task (constant pain to enter semicolon, brackets or even any math operator, etc). We should really strive for something better!
I'd really appreciate your "votes" - just by making regular keys ~1.2mm narrower we could have almost perfectly workable standard ANSI layout with a very few compromises:
IMHO this would definitely make a better product and.. since it'd have more keys - it's ok even if it'd cost a bit more
