Tim McGhee
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Hi, putting this idea on the forum so we can find out how many people prefer the backspace in one place or the other.
Currently it is in the top row. GOOD because it’s like other (non-phone) keyboards and allows the punctuation keys to be in their normal places. BAD because it makes backspace harder to hit and the keyboard is harder to get used to from other phone keyboards.
We could move it to the bottom row. GOOD because it’s like phone keyboards that people are used to, and allows the backspace to be easily hit. BAD because it’s different from standard keyboards and would move the punctuation keys to a strange, hard-to-hit place.
If opinions are split we might consider making it an option, but options make the keyboard more complicated to configure (and many users never open Settings) and to maintain.
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Would it be possible to separate the selection of a language and the selection of a keyboard layout?
35 votesWhat you are saying makes sense, and would not be hard to implement. However the trick is to keep the configuration simple for the user. It starts to feel clunky when you are having to select layout and language separately.
One idea might be to have an “freeze layout” switch which if unset (the default) leaves behavior as now. If it IS set, that layout stays unchanged, and only the language changes when selecting by the regular mechanism (either quick-switch or from list in settings).
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This is a good idea. Implementing this could be as is simple as having two buttons instead of one: swap languages, swap keyboards.
Freeze layout could be more confusing by implying there's more to the layout that could change.
Considering how often I still switch keyboards for features like dictation, it would be better to have placement consistent with other phone keyboards.
Thank you for the cursor keys. That's why I bought this keyboard.