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dirkvl	2014-10-26 , 16:57
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some more elaborate replies:

Originally Posted by malkavian
I don't see a qwerty spanish variant

i haven't seen a lot of spanish jolla users. if the demand is high enough everything is possible, but we can not please everyone.
we will however share all files to adjust your keyboard to your liking in your local laser-engraving shop, that will give the same finish.
or as coderus told before:

Originally Posted by coderus

i think specifications will be open, and you can always produce your own keyboard if want.

Originally Posted by pichlo
It's a bit (with some stretch) like saying, "Everybody knows how the internal combustion engine works, go and build your own car." Not everyone has the necessary skills or equipment. I guess the most limiting factor for those with the necessary skills would be the access to a 3D printer.

so follow the tutorials on my site and get familiar with 3d printing services as shapeways. it is less complex than you think.

Originally Posted by stefanmohl
Perhaps some sort of crowd-sourcing could help? If you can provide a blank image of the keyboard layout, and correctly sized images of each character, people could use simple tools like Paint to drag the characters into place on the blank keyboard and upload to some central repository (a wiki at TMO?). There they can discuss the different layouts that they are interested in and tweak them to perfection (including forks when they disagree). Then others can come in and pick and choose among lots of different layouts when they order a keyboard.

I tried that with this topic, but there were more people shouting 'do this layout' and Q&A, than an actual discussion. My priority is also not to lead this complex crowd-sourcing project. If anyone else want to pick this up, I will definitely be listening as everything I do is demand-based. But demand-based design is not changing something because one person says

Originally Posted by stefanmohl

Also, maybe swap places between insert and delete keys?

Originally Posted by stefanmohl
Oh, no! I can clearly see that you have put lots of thought into this!
...
Or perhaps I have just gone overboard with this, and when you say "lots of layouts", you don't mean it for quite so large values of "lots"! :-)

You assume correct.

Originally Posted by Dave999
Oh sexy...can't wait to get my hands on thhkbd rev4 deluxe edition with extra gold for jPhone ll.

As soon as they send me CAD files I can start.

Originally Posted by Dave999
nothing is perfect, there is always possible to improve

But not always within the time and budget. we have to channel our effort to important stuff, what is important for us may differ from some else.
If people found something really important I would assume posts here would be better funded than

Originally Posted by stefanmohl

Oh, and a flip cover for the keyboard would be nice too

which is -probably not meant as such- edging on insult.

Originally Posted by bobsikus
looking good maybe I have missed that info, you are planning to make two versions, which one is slided to the left and second to the right ? or it is slidable both sides ? (just looking at the pictures, that the position of camera is changing)

It works on both sides!

Originally Posted by vistaus

I'm 200% sure Dirk will not produce ISO900 crap so can we please go ontopic?

Thanks! On-topic, lots of news the coming week!

Last edited by dirkvl; 2014-10-26 at 17:15.

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