The design is settling in.
- Don’t try to use the keyboard to teach the user what is possible on that computer using that keyboard. For me this manifested in the form of trying to cram a lot of symbols and idea in each key. It was confusing; you have to know what you are doing before you get there, more or less. The idea of columns and position 1/2/3 are too literal. There isn’t enough space to read the symbols. It just doesn’t work for me.
- Only use 4 symbols for the top and 1 for the front
- Whenever letters have a lower and upper case, only including one letter in that column. It will be obvious to the user. I will free-up space on the keyboard.
- Provide modifiers for what you will/would expect coming to keyboard
- Greek
- APL
- Function (Fn)
- Important because colors distinguish intent
- Volume
- Page Up and Page down. It is obvious that you would use function for this if you’ve ever used a laptop.
- Symbol
- This is the only other thing I’ve got, Emoticons and maybe Mathematical symbols that aren’t on the APL keyboard
- Moved Greek letters to front freeing up space for APL keys
- Didn’t add them set, unsure of the APL2 keyset
- this seems to be it at least for Dyalog
- APL symbols are two per key, need the space
- Just want this on the keyboard
- Didn’t add them set, unsure of the APL2 keyset
- Like colors on the keyboard so pulled colors from Solarized
- Don’t use ISO symbols for modifiers, nobody will know them
- Set it up using general terms, Alt and Gui
- Type out Emacs modifiers
- Added APL example for E
- Place 4 in the left middle
- APL symbols on right top and bottom
- Maximize space use for readability
- Difference between symbol and APL key not obvious
- Like macros, key choices must be evidence based for good results
