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"DreymaR's Big Bag of Keyboard Tricks" for Windows with EPKL
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Support for the hands down keyboard layout? #67

Open AsafMah opened 1 year ago

AsafMah commented 1 year ago

Just a suggestion, came across this nice system - https://sites.google.com/alanreiser.com/handsdown

It seems to not have great support for window, so it could be nice if it was integrated here.

DreymaR commented 1 year ago

There are several interesting alt layouts, as I'm sure you know. I don't have the time to implement them all, so I only choose the ones I find most interesting.

I have heard of the Hands Down layouts, but I don't think they have a lot of traction anymore? As you can see in this guide by Pascal Getreuer, they score low on some modern parameters which means I want to focus my attention elsewhere unless there is a compelling argument to change my mind.

https://getreuer.info/posts/keyboards/alt-layouts/index.html#which-alt-keyboard-layout-should-i-learn

Of course, I still use Colemak-DH which has similar stats for DSFBs and scores worse on redirects (mixed rolls), so it's not the end of everything. I just don't see a reason for putting in all that work to implement Hands Down at the moment, sorry.

You could of course implement it yourself and send me a pull request. If you do it in a tidy way I'll consider accepting.

On a side note, I am working at the moment to implement the APTv3 layout. If that goes well and I find the time and energy, I may include a few more, maybe Sturdy and/or Nerps. Who knows. So you see, I have a lot on my TODO list already. Hehe.