#32 keyboard styles

[davidak]

there are different keyboard styles. would you add more than the default?

• matrix: all keys have the same size and are arranged straight, e.g. https://ergodox-ez.com/pages/planck
• ortholinear: similar, but letters are vertically staggered, e.g. https://ergodox-ez.com/

i made mockups

it might be an issue to map the letters to it. you could remove non-letters at start and end

[davidak]

...

[Felipe Castro]

Hi, I know the issue. But every time some kind of crazy, out of the box, keyboard idea comes out, I simply can't afford to make patches to enable Klavaro compatible with every one of them. It's complicated to create new virtual keyboards for that, as it has many "hidden" labels and text entries inside it.

See 2 examples of really crazy stuff:
Alphagrip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKIXAfqTN4Y
BeeRaider: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwNGdqRkiCk

I have already tested the Alphagrip one, it's amazing, but I have given up. But at that time I succeeded to map keys from it to Klavaro, in terms of fingers to use, and I could use Klavaro to learn it, so that's why it is still available the "alphagrip" layout option in the USA keyboards.

So, for Matrix and Ortholinear, believe me, you are really lucky!