As promised earlier in my news post, here is the thread about the keyboard layout.

First of all, thanks for all the discussions and threads you already had here at the boards - a few interesting ideas arose, and one came very close to what I had in mind. Let's start with some facts first:

* The keyboard should be standard enough to be used by every normal user * It should be balanced between text typing and coding * It should have most of the keys a normal keyboard has (i.e. Pandora keyboard has issues with DosBox). * The main languages used where the Pandora sold are English, French and German. It should support these languages as good as possible (with English being the main one) * We should have a maximum of three characters per key: One with a single keypress, one with Shift and one with AltGr (which replaces the old Fn-Key) * The most-used keys should get the best positions * The keyboard will have two different colored labels (so basically the same as the Pandora had). * Adding more colors will make things more expensive, and the keymat IS already more expensive because of the backlight.

Now, that's all for basic information. Head over to the boards to see the layout and discuss about it!

http://boards.openpandora.org/topic/17881-its-the-keyboard-layout/

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