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Gemini PDA - Hardware / All the keyboard layouts published so far

« on: April 05, 2020, 10:59:35 am »

I used to use special character buttons until I discovered US-International Layout, you basically type letters by holding alt or alt + shift for uppercase, something I found fairly quick to get in muscle memory.
Since I also do some programming, US layout is handy for non-letter characters.

Unfortunately for me, I haven't gotten this to work in debian, which is my preferred OS on gemini, but no problem on Android.

I know this doesn't solve your problem, but maybe an alternative you could experiment with.

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Thanks for your help. There are various software fixes for the issue but I am looking for hardware fix also. For that part Planet Computers must redesign the layout or at least provide extra keys as spare parts. If there would be one key labeled Ä available then user could replace either Ö or Shift on the right with it. Planet Computers could generate some money flow by selling extra keys.

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Gemini PDA - Hardware / All the keyboard layouts published so far

« on: April 05, 2020, 03:43:40 am »

I hope that Planet Computers could consider to redesign Finnish/Swedish layout. Ä letter is much common in both languages than Ö like users have reported here.

• Finnish: https://www.sttmedia.com/characterfrequency-finnish (Ä: 5.21 %, Ö: 0.39 %)
• Swedish: https://www.sttmedia.com/characterfrequency-swedish (Ä: 2.10 %, Ö: 1.50 %)

I am proposing that Planet Computers could swap Ö and Ä letters. I know that many people are using FinQwerty app to remap those buttons on Gemini PDA and Cosmo Communicator. It is hard to type Ä if you have to press FN button first. You can find my suggestion below.

Another idea is that maybe Planet Computers could sacrifice Shift button on the right for Ä letter. Then both Ä and Ö would be available for easy typing. Personally I would like that option. See the image below.

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If Planet Computers do not want to redesign layouts they could at least provide extra keys as a spare parts for their customers. I would be ready to buy these extra keys and change keys by myself. Then I would have to remap keys on software level also but that is a easy task.

I have sent email to Planet Computers and got response that email is forwarded to "the relevant department for future reviewing". If you like my idea, please, send email to Planet Computers so maybe they could actually take this into account.