Modest change to the layouts.
- Compose is now where Askarus suggested it be.
- Added a keyboard Sleep mode to Left Shift with Right Shift. Closing the lid can still be configured to Sleep mode too.
For the moment, centered v2 is my personal preference, though I do like it's v1 counterpart which looks more like my laptop's keyboard arrangement. New buyers may be less intimidated by this familiarity.
Centered vs Uncentered
I know a handful of people want an uncentered layout, but I'd rather we keep it close to the Pandora's presentation. I've made examples below to show the remaps as they will be for the "average" Norwegian user to add their å, æ, and ø characters.
First is the v2 layouts at the Fn level before the mandatory changes:
Next is after the remaps:
Here the Uncentered layout looks much more like it's
Norwegian standard keyboard, but it's at the
loss of shifting all letters and vowels one place over to the left side for those who won't be doing these sort of changes. Again, I'm not fond that the "a" is nearer to the edge. Livable but still a minor annoyance. It also took five total remaps since semicolon and colon had to be moved(Tab under Fn isn't counted in the tally here). I admit I do like where Escape is and even Caps Lock. Can't say I'm a fan of Tab's location though in the uncentered one but at least it's a primary key.
Now, moving over to the Centered layout, only three keys were overwritten. Nothing had to move anywhere else. No massive migrations and no relearning by my thumbs for the letters and vowels. In v2 centered, even most of the punctuation stays the same. Shifts seem in their natural places, so does Tab and Spacebar. There's even an abundance of places for other keys to reassign to without touching the standard punctuation symbols(except for Grave which could, though not necessary, be moved onto Fn + y).
I hope that none of what was said above seems that I am insisting it should be this way or that way. I'm only presenting the scenario and leaving it up to the reader to comprehend the information how they choose to in their own way. In my eyes, all the layouts I've made recently are effective and I've worked on these so all of us can have mostly what we want. Thanks.
