I got a Kinesis Advantage 2 recently! It's great! But the stock layout (see appendix) has some problems:
- I don't like cmd and ctrl being on the tiny buttons. I have to move my hands too much.
- I don't like escape being in the function row. Needs to be somewhere easier to reach.
- There are no media or volume keys bound by default.
- Let's be honest, I never use home, end, page up, or page down. Almost everywhere I need to do those, I use cmd-left, cmd-right, space, and shift-space or readline shortcuts like
c-e
andc-a
. They're easier to reach for me on most keyboards. - I really really really want a hyper key. It's easy to get to on most layouts (since the modifiers are all together) but not here. We also don't have a special switch, so we'll have to modify the software. Easy enough, right? (wrong.)