Grench
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Instead, you've taken all of the keyboard symbols and thrown them in a blender and populated them to the Fn/Meta layer, lost compatibility for software needing symbol pairs maintained and thrown in a 3rd shift key. You sacrifice usability, gaming capability, language compatibility and DosBox compliance and broke up the F1-F12 row JUST so you can put the numbers on the top layer.I'm not a coder but I think the Pyra becomes a more universal device to many more people if the numbers are on the top layer rather than behind modifier(s).Ahh - a coder then.Nope. Numbers need to be unshifted. Can't type line numbers as a stream-of-consciousness type thing when coding if you have to keep banging the function key before you type each line of code.
Honestly, I can't see why we don't just use the same layout as the original Pandora. We all know that one by now.
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Picture yourself actually using it. Consider the coding efficiency gains of having the symbols on top.
It has a number row. It's on the same row and keys that others are using for numbers. It simply requires using one of two Fn buttons to activate. It isn't difficult and doesn't require huge thought. Just press a shoulder button and type in your numbers then let go of the shoulder button. Alternatively you can use the Fn button on the keyboard itself - options galore.BASIC, of course. I write a lot of that on the Pandora, so of course it's more important to me that the number keys are most easily accessible. I do agree that sometimes the Pandora symbols were not logically laid out, but once learned I don't even have to look at the keyboard anymore.
The best argument for a number row is the post above; that it will be more readily accessible to people that expect there to be a row of numbers. Are there any devices out there (aside from GBA, NDS et al) that don't have a row of numbers? Those that have a proper qwerty keyboard that is.
And not phones, before anyone pipes up
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You're acting like the number row has been totally removed from the device or made so that they require a blood draw to use.
http://www.keyboard-layout-editor.com/#/layouts/ee8d3bc8b446f99c027105d3810f8d07
If you're used to using the Left shoulder to shift on the Pandora, then L1 = shift will feel natural to you. L2 = Fn works just the same exact way. Mash both to get the shift+Fn layer. Numbers won't slow you down just because they're on the Fn layer.
Did you even consider all of the things that we can -gain- from doing this? I listed a lot of benefits above.
And no, I'm not aware of any company making a keyboard exactly like this one. Last i checked, nobody else is making anything like the Pyra either.