In general, though, I’m pretty frustrated that Purism only offers such a limited, anglo-centric (non-)selection of keyboard layouts. Especially since you initially promised FR and DE layouts.
I do something different (using the Apple french layout on the Librem-13 UK layout which was delivered in place of the french I ordered) since the beginning.
It is however still disturbing since sometime my eyes view the keyboard and create bad reflex.
Well, the UK layout must be different from US then because I have a Right Alt on my Librem 13, which is just next to the Space key. Both Alt keys are next to the Space key on my keyboard. One the left, the other on the right.
As I said on a previous post, hopefully we will soon get to the point where we can afford more keyboard layouts. Of course you should be able to easily replace the keys on your current Librem. We don’t work for planned obsolescence in any way.
We are slowly but surely growing and we do our best for this to happen soon!
Similar situation for Scandinavian languages, Hungarian, Turkish, German…: I can live with “z” and “y” in their respective positions, however, I need Ä,Ö,Ü, ä,ö, ü und ß - else I can’t type any text without mistakes. And whenever I write scripts etc., I like to know where !$()?*’[]|<># are.
Is there any chance that the Librem11 will ship with non-English keyboards? I feel very tempted to place an order, but without a qwertz-layout including umlaut characters, it’s just not fit for my everyday needs. I guess alot of potential buyers might feel the same about their keyboards needs.
Btw, I’m happy to help with a Swedish funding/preorder campaign if that’s on your radar to set up and coordinate for more than one country. Best regards. //Erik
I just love the laptops you make and would be ready to purchase, but will definitly won’t purchase one unless you can ship it with my language keyboard (that would be French AZERTY, thank you very much).
Consider this as a +1 for French keyboard support please
I too would be interested in an “alternative” layout.
Do you have any way to figure whether the demand for a layout is strong or not?
As an example, I’m usually a silent reader of the forum. I find the lack of French layout to be inconvenient enough to prevent me from buying one of your great Librem 13.
Have you thought about setting-up a poll on your website? Or are you based mainly on request/complaints on the forum?