Here is a keyboard layout I would like to have. I trust that someone can do the corresponding plate template for it.
Yes, this layout is awesome. It exists? I googled LZ-EX but nothing came up. Can anyone post a link or a photo for the LZ-EX ?
BTW the leopold FC660 comes close to this layout, only it's has this huge gap and missing Home/End keys even though it has the space for it on the right hand side. What a shameful waste of real estate :-(
I have a Leopold FC660M. Before I actually used it, I did not like the appearance of the arrow cluster and isolated Insert and Delete keys. After using the keyboard, I like it very much with respect to the layout, appearance, and typing feel. It is a solid board with excellent build quality. My board was made in Korea, whereas I think that the FC660C and some of the FC660M boards are made by Leopold-China; I have not seen any comparisons of boards from the two sources regarding build quality or quality control.
According to the feedback I received from EK.com, although the seemingly isolated Insert key seems odd to Western customers, Asian customers reportedly make frequent use of the Insert key. In addition, as someone else recently pointed out on this Forum, it actually makes sense to offset the Insert and Delete keys so that they are separated from other keys as they are in a full-size or TKL board. Moreover, the position of the Insert and Delete keys aligns them with the right-arrow key.
All this notwithstanding, it might be nice if Leopold were to come out with a revised version that included 4 keys in the far-right column in addition to the right-arrow key. Perhaps these 4 extra keys could be user-selected via DIP switch settings and/or these and other keys could be programmable. I hope that they would not change the current Fn layer, which is one of the best I have seen. I particularly like Home, End, PgUp, and PgDn mapped to Fn plus arrow keys, which seems eminently intuitive.