I've got a firmware programmable Access keyboard and thought it would be fun to change the layout.
I type (badly) using the dvorak layout - so first of all I've changed it to a dvorak keyboard - so I can type my network password using dvorak instead of qwerty.
Then I stood on the shoulders of lowpoly and added a layer so I've got navigation keys around the home keys. If that doesn't make sense to you then check out the
mini guru.
So far - so good. All tested - quite happy.
Once you start fiddling, it's difficult to know when to stop... I've made a few changes, but I haven't saved them to the keyboard yet.
I use punctuation far more than I use numbers - I suspect that many programmers fall into this category - so now the number row is shifted - if I want " then I just need to press the 2. If I want 2 then I need to press GeekHack and then the 2.
I swap to other non dvorak boards from time to time and I use autohotkey to translate qwerty to dvorak. To avoid unwanted double translation of already dvorak to well, something else entirely, the numlock key turns the script on/off. Sadly, this makes the standard numpad keys on the access almost useless. To fix this, I've changed the numpad keys to the numbers from the top row.
I've also added a copy and paste on the f and d keys.
So any thoughts, comments or other ideas?