Re: [Traverso-devel] supporting non qwerty layouts

[hollunder]

On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:08:36 +0100
Remon <address@hidden> wrote:

> > IMO the best solution would be if keymaps could be loaded at
> > runtime (maybe this works already). 
> 
> This indeed works allready.
> 
> > We could add some of the popular ones (e.g. the 
> > regular qwerty, a qwertz for Swiss/German layouts, and your fancy
> > one), and in addition it would be easy for the users to customize
> > their layout.
> 
> hollunder (Phillip) has a qwerty keyboard layout, but uses a
> different mapping named NEO
> 
> In essence the keyboard remains a qwerty one as far as I understand
> it, so creating a different keymap doesn't work. E.g. Using the G for
> Gain remains as it is, and the G is located right of your left
> pointing finger. But not so with the NEO layout, where it is mapped
> somewhere to the right of the keyboard
> 
> Might be a non issue though, but it might be nice for people using
> this kind of weird keyboard mappings.
> 
> For those that have a different layout that's hardware based, like
> qwertz it's of course up to someone to write a keymap that fits the
> layout more. Anyone volunteering ? :D
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Remon

It's really a non-issue I think, I could just make a keymap or change
the layout to qwertz if it was one.
How good does the qwertz keyboard/layout work with the current qwerty
keymap?

Best Regards
        Philipp