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Keycon looked amazing and I really wish I could have been there. I watched all the live streams and presentations and wrote this summary: "What you (and I) missed at Keycon 2014"



Make sure you click on the collage

Yeah, there are some limitations to doing this in browser. I have elaborated on the issues at the project website.

CarpalX layouts fixed, French layouts added (azerty,bepo)

Project moved to its own github repository: https://github.com/mikekuehn/keyboard-layouts/

Davkol: Good idea; I'll look into the source of the keyboard-layout-creator and see...

Muirium: Haha, why not. Home row on the bottom, wow. I wonder how bad it would be if you rearranged the rows though - zxkg on the bottom, pwfu on the top, dhia in the middle.

Vierax: Thanks for the push towards a multilingual tool. Probably I should create a new site (and github repository ...

According to http://www.michaelcapewell.com/projects ... /index.htm Capewell 0.93 is 'current', if you can say that about an unfinished project from 9 years ago!

I can certainly add those layouts, Icarium.

Hmm.. derpydash, do you think I should provide both versions, or simply switch to 0.91?

Thanks Daniel. I designed the dropdowns when there were only 3 layouts: QWERTY, Colemak, and Dvorak. Perhaps a more robust selection mechanism is in order now, ie.

Optimization Level: Full, Partial
Qwerty ZXCV: Bounded, unbounded
Qwerty Punctuation: Bounded, unbounded
Based on: Dvorak, Qwerty ...

Try out soft layouts like Colemak, Dvorak, Arensito, etc.

http://mikekuehn.ca/posts/keyboard-layouts/

I have 28 layouts up there now. Please report any bugs or layout / feature requests. :)

I posted this on geekhack and colemak forums just now, so sorry to those who frequent those forums - not ...

Thanks for the info! I don't use ctrl-alt-shift arrows for anything but some do (managing workspaces etc). Because ctrl+alt+shift+win are usually in a cluster its implied that you can chord them together with the arrow keys.

, . / - ; perhaps can be relocated to a more ergo position in the WASD ...

Nice layout. I have been working on some reduced matrix layouts as well. A couple questions/thoughts:

1. There is a lot of redundancy (arrows on both hands, thumb keys). Is that by design? I can see how you could get around any bad thumb combos in this arrangement, by hitting two adjacent keys with ...