hem to vowels. In Norwegian and Danish mappings, you could put Æ on E, Å on A, and Ö on O, at least to me that seems to make some kind of sense. In Swedish/Finish m
No you cant, because it doesn't work. Reinventing keyboard paradigms with things that are known to be less than feasible is not ok, because if it was it would be done in that fashion already. People dont want to change and they dont want something that doesnt work. These are the regular users everyone seems so concerned about.
To get back on track:
Put the P+2 and L+2 keys in the P+2 and L+2 positions, like a keyboard. Label them according to US/UK convention, because that is the biggest market.
When Ive asked for a reasoning as to how the layout ED proposed came to be I've thus far assembled this much.
It is "centered" when you consider only the A-Z letters, which has nothing to do with a keyboard, and everything to do with missing keys. Also for UK/US one language-people, since they have expected functionality in those positions for them.
Those keys are missing on a pandora, which for some reason, to some people, makes it a better convention than regular keyboards.
Regular keyboard is good, it is known to work, and it is habitually engrained. On one of those you will find the symbols are on the number-keys and the letters are on the letter keys. Mixing that changes things. Not only that, it also changes expectations of how AltGR works. Putting symbols all over the keyboard makes it look crowded, but it is ok because of ???
Since we all agree normal keyboards are normal, at least acknowledge all the international users who dislike the pandora keyboard. We didnt make that up just to be difficult. There are ways to deal with it, and hacks not to be found anywhere else fails on a multitude of levels. It doesn't work, and nobody wants to learn something new, that doesnt work. Ugly spiral of nope.jpeg. This works depending on what region you are in, and they are the same for everyone:
Dedicated keys
Compose key
AltGr+
Dead-key diactrics
French number hotkey diactrics
If it isnt any of those, your battle is lost.
Dont remove functionality, and you dont add hacks. Otherwise you have a reduced functionality English only keyboard.
Then there is the forever strange wide-space. The only logical approach I've been able to see with that is it looks more like a space from a 10finger keyboard. Ok, fair argument, thats recognizable, and some people are bent on it, make it a bigger key, but compromise before you throw the tub out with the bathwater-baby. Make it double-wide, and have the right side (which is less central) be punctuation.
(space * * *) Make the regularpress of right-side doublewide into a dot. le space← → . Free combo. That means you don't have to venture all the way over to the other side of the keyboard every time there is a new sentence. Like here. And again. Every time. This happens. Alot.