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Ive written kernel modules and I don't see why its a bad idea...

YES! I absolutely do! this should be a fact of hardware - how it works as if implemented in silicon, no user space application should have ANY access, except via its own configuration (deliberately limited - emit keycode or character or run script) The overlay will ONLY be active while the...

No you completely misunderstand, I mean a kernel (evdev) module

...well you could, but for something low level maybe the KISS principle is preferred!!! :)

well line drawn icons would be see through enough! The touch driver would directly need to send raw events to either the grid or its normal evdev way depending on state This implies tight integration between keyboard and touchscreen drivers, but as this is a fixed hardware platform thats not...

That was exactly my idea, assuming there was no wifi on/off "grid cell" defined, the user could just make their own graphic and script and add it to their keyboard config!

As I understand the display hardware there are a small number of independent display layers. The idea I've had is to write a kernel driver for the keyboard that would make use of a dedicated layer, with the ability to consume touch events when needed. This would mean even at the lowest level...

As someone who actually is Dyslexic - You couldn't be more wrong... spacial location of *individual* symbols and even the ease of visualizing multiple objects interrelations while coding are very different from the issues you think Dyslexic causes.

Isn't there a superfluous "r" in the label for Meta-M ? : o ) but seriously having the Meta on the Left and symbols on the right makes it actually usable for me (I find it painful to use shoulder buttons and keys at the same time) despite the large number of symbols its not over cluttered and...

While it is a bit cluttered I could live with this too, I'm getting scared too many people agreeing :-o

Pros: Meta on the correct side (oooh contentious) Cons: Too many symbols per key f11/f12 isolated (seriously guys whats wrong with BS / return) tab key second class citizen So guess I don't agree either...

[use shoulder buttons]  [my addition for clarity] My hands/fingers are quite long unless the Pyra is quite different in size then it will also be uncomfortable (even painful long term) to use the keyboard AND shoulder buttons at the same time.  You might find them convenient but you can't...

Release early, release often, then reap the benefit of feedback and new ideas. You can't put down a design then not evolve it or it just becomes dogma much as the DosBox meme that has taken up way more energy than the issue deserves. I think _wb_ had come up with by far the best compromise...

Just because I can't think of any doesn't mean there aren't others... Oolite was another one that ptitseb had to port. There FTFY... Software is very much easier to change than hardware thats been forced to cater to dubious corner cases

I believe QEMU was properly ported and I can't think of any other's that might have this issue ?

heretic! burn the blasphemer ! I was beginning to think I was the only one to think that one piece of software should be fixed, instead of bodging hardware to work with it and making every other user/piece of software suffer...  

Out of the two I think http://www.keyboard-layout-editor.com/#/layouts/12a133ea8ca2ae5ffc9d9a341f094d48looks easier to use...

I'm a UK user and I DO want diacritics but I don't want them to crowd making the keyboard difficult to learn (and they don't need to) I wouldn't be so ignorant to demand that the keyboard only catered to English - its an international device isn't it?

Sarcasm tags really prevent you from giving people the idea that you have a poor attitude I wish when I got hold of a Pandora for the first time that my keyboard skills instantaneously transfered to using just two thumbs on tiny keys, unlike the instantly skilled I had a few days of looking...

A mental map for a full sized keyboard is almost entirely irrelevant to something completely different that you use with (mainly) two thumbs rather than (almost) ten fingers... Having keys visually easily distinguishable from each other makes keys very much easier to find and makes learning...