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> One last thing: if I may suggest, you should replace the default picture by one with fewer characters: the german β, the spanish Ñ, and the scandinavian chara
by noname120 5y ago
> One last thing: if I may suggest, you should replace the default picture by one with fewer characters: the german β, the spanish Ñ, and the scandinavian character (oslash, ae) may be nice to have, but they may play against you: French users may see them as irrelevant, and cluttering the keyboard.
This is a very good suggestion! I should definitely show a simplified screenshot, and only introduce the extra characters in an advanced section. This should make it look less overwhelming.
> For similar reasons, you may want to unify the blue and the red overlays. I've figured out that the right Alt did toggle the blue overlay, but I still don't understand how to get the red one.
For other readers, you're referring to https://qwerty-fr.org/ https://qwerty-fr.org/. Blue means that it's accessible with AltGr, and red means that the key is a dead key.
In a nutshell:
– Lower left corner: no modifier.
– Upper left corner: Shift.
– Lower right corner: AltGr.
– Upper right corner: AltGr + Shift.
I agree that this is confusing, especially since the keyboard widget doesn't highlight the layer when you press e.g. AltGr + Shift so it's hard to know what's going to happen.
- csdvrx 5y agoOh, I see! What about you replace red by purple or some darker shade of blue? Given the difference in color, I thought it was a separate layer activated by another key!!!
- noname120 5y agoThis would help readability a lot! This widget I'm using is x-keyboard[1]. It has several shortcomings (including the one you mentioned). I'm trying to get in touch with the author to see if they are still interested in maintaining it, otherwise I'll do a fork. [1] https://github.com/fabi1cazenave/x-keyboard https://github.com/fabi1cazenave/x-keyboard