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This seems to suffer from the "Swiss Army Knife Syndrome": It does many things, but not one thing well. Any individual "European" (that is, a speaker of a lang
by p-e-w 3y ago
This seems to suffer from the "Swiss Army Knife Syndrome": It does many things, but not one thing well.
Any individual "European" (that is, a speaker of a language which uses those Latin-extended characters) is going to want a layout where the symbols they use daily are accessible either as separate keys, or with Shift. Requiring AltGr to type é and è isn't going to fly with users who need them. And I'm certainly not going to press Shift+AltGr+A/O/U to get Ä/Ö/Ü, which I have to type many times per day.
Some parts of the layout also seem to ignore which letters are actually in use. The capital Eszett (ẞ, Shift+AltGr+S in this layout) simply isn't a thing in the real world. It has zero usage in practice. Surely that spot could be utilized for something better?
- hruzgar 3y agoI think generally this layout is more for programmers. If you're programming more than writing a text in your language, eurkey is certainly the way to go. I for myself switched to it and will never look back.
- sschueller 3y agoI'm sticking to my Swiss layout where äöü are directly accessible and I finally got used to it. Not switching back and Apple can suck it for having a different Swiss layout.