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I'm working on kind of the opposite of what most everyone does: a larger-than-full-sized keyboard. Bringing back the f13-f24 physical keys (mostly because they
by zamadatix 3y ago
I'm working on kind of the opposite of what most everyone does: a larger-than-full-sized keyboard. Bringing back the f13-f24 physical keys (mostly because they make good non-global hotkeys), surrounding the number pad with characters for hex, : for IPv6, "," bc why the hell isn't it there, moving the number pad to the left so the keyboard is more balanced.
I've been playing around with re-arranging some of the keys (particularly above the arrow keys) but I'm trying to keep the majority in the same place because I can't exactly expect this keyboard everywhere and it's already a big enough pain going between different standard layouts. Oh, and the caps lock is a layer key for whatever seems fun, I'd like to find a good way to enter raw unicode hex values via the number pad in that layer mode but I haven't really gotten that far.
The other big feature is it'll also stay completely unmarked. Partially because it looks nicer, partially because it means looking never really helps you just are made to remember very quickly, and partially because that means if anything doesn't work out it's just a reprogram of the firmware or using a single type of key so they can be moved around instead of ergonomically shaped for their position.
Hearing it was worth it for the author (for whatever reasons) is good to hear. I honestly don't think I'll find all this worth it... but at the same time it is one of those things where "even if it's not worth using once it's made it's worth not wondering if it would be anymore".