Open nihilistpc opened 3 years ago
I have not looked into 40% keyboards yet (we’re probably talking about models like the Planck EZ?), because they’re quite unusual, even in the western world. And I don’t have one either. Looking at their layout I have the following thoughs:
Hm, I think it would make sense to create a model for this physical keyboard layout with proper base weights, do a few optimization runs and see if the layout will be completely different or similar to what lulua is currently.
Yeah, the example you provided is what I meant by 40% keyboard. They are getting popular recently (especially on custom keyboards communities), and many claim that they are more efficient.
Hi all, I've recently implemented the base layer on my Voyager from ZSA (I think you can consider it 40%?), with some slight modifications:
I did these changes because I wanted to write ال from write to left, and with my index fingers.
Here is how it looks:
See it here. And here is my layout on Oryx, not everything makes sense here, I'm experimenting.
Hope this helps.
Since the Voyager is so different from standard IBM keyboards, I think it might be worth looking at the keyboard parameters in lulua/carpalx.py
(yeah, unfortunately not part of lulua/data/keyboards/ibmpc105.yaml
), tuning them and then running the optimizer again to get a better layout. lulua was unfortunately not built with such small keyboards in mind.
Have you tried implementing this layout on 40% keyboard? I find this project to be quiet interesting