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> And you can disable the backlight on any keyboard. I don't want to have to disable an useless backlight. I want the backlight to bring in functionality that

by 1996 6y ago

> And you can disable the backlight on any keyboard. I don't want to have to disable an useless backlight. I want the backlight to bring in functionality that makes it worth keeping. Per key RGB led? Great! Have a daemon learn my typing to make suggestions by lighting up the keys I'm the most likely to use in a context dependent operation. ex: if using Firefox, after I type the L-I-N-U key, I want X to be shining. if using Excel, after typing (-[A-Z]-[0-9], I want : to be shining.

wlesieutre 6y ago
For all those hunt-and-peck typists who buy keyboards with per-key RGB backlighting? I wouldn’t think those two markets have a lot of overlap.
- 1996 6y ago
  No, for when coding at night tired, when replying to email and uncertain about the spelling, etc. You like color for looks? I like color for function.
  - wlesieutre 6y ago
    Still, if one must have pre-typing spelling assistance instead of just spelling it wrong and correcting it afterward, seems like something you'd be better off putting on-screen where you're actually looking, rather than displaying it on the keyboard where you typically not looking. Even if you do look down you'd need to move your hands out of the way to see which key is glowing. For me, backlit keys are useful to set my hands in the right place, and then I stop looking at them. When I have them change color, it's a reminder of which keys in my fn-layer are bound to other functions like volume up/down and previous/play+pause/next.
    - 1996 6y ago
      > rather than displaying it on the keyboard where you typically not looking I use a laptop and both the screen and keyboard are in my field of vision. If the most probably key was highlighted, I believe I could consciously (or subconsciously?) take advantage of that information > When I have them change color, it's a reminder of which keys in my fn-layer are bound to other functions so you are using the backlight as a whole, instead of the invidual key backlights - to match what you were saying, nothing that a popup couldn't display on the screen ("CONTROL_DOWN"...)
ek750 6y ago
The dogma raise https://dygma.com/ https://dygma.com/ that i recently obtained is the first backlit keyboard that I’ve seen that uses per key rgb backlighting in a useful manner. It has 8 layers and is completely programmable including the backlight. I set different colors on different keys for a layer so I can visually verify which layer I’m on. Not quite the flexibility of what you mentioned, but it might be possible, as the firmware and programmer are open. Kind of like what apple had in mind with their absurd touchbar, but with physical keys.

by 1996 6y ago

wlesieutre 6y ago

For all those hunt-and-peck typists who buy keyboards with per-key RGB backlighting? I wouldn’t think those two markets have a lot of overlap.

1996 6y ago
No, for when coding at night tired, when replying to email and uncertain about the spelling, etc. You like color for looks? I like color for function.
- wlesieutre 6y ago
  Still, if one must have pre-typing spelling assistance instead of just spelling it wrong and correcting it afterward, seems like something you'd be better off putting on-screen where you're actually looking, rather than displaying it on the keyboard where you typically not looking. Even if you do look down you'd need to move your hands out of the way to see which key is glowing. For me, backlit keys are useful to set my hands in the right place, and then I stop looking at them. When I have them change color, it's a reminder of which keys in my fn-layer are bound to other functions like volume up/down and previous/play+pause/next.
  - 1996 6y ago
    > rather than displaying it on the keyboard where you typically not looking I use a laptop and both the screen and keyboard are in my field of vision. If the most probably key was highlighted, I believe I could consciously (or subconsciously?) take advantage of that information > When I have them change color, it's a reminder of which keys in my fn-layer are bound to other functions so you are using the backlight as a whole, instead of the invidual key backlights - to match what you were saying, nothing that a popup couldn't display on the screen ("CONTROL_DOWN"...)

ek750 6y ago

The dogma raise https://dygma.com/ https://dygma.com/ that i recently obtained is the first backlit keyboard that I’ve seen that uses per key rgb backlighting in a useful manner. It has 8 layers and is completely programmable including the backlight. I set different colors on different keys for a layer so I can visually verify which layer I’m on. Not quite the flexibility of what you mentioned, but it might be possible, as the firmware and programmer are open. Kind of like what apple had in mind with their absurd touchbar, but with physical keys.