There were some good comments on the proposed QWERTZ layout. I like the idea of adding the € on the E key, the @ on the Q key and the µ key on the M.
Another two keys that are missing:
- the
#key, with shift:' - the
+key, with shift:*, with AltGr:~
Obviously all those characters are also quite important. Arguably the “~” is as important as the accents ` ´ (which i consider important) to compose all those european characters ñ á è etc.
There is another change here compared to the standard german layout: The characters “[ { } ]” that can normally be reached using AltGr+7 8 9 and 0 are now one row lower (on the key U I O P) but their order has changed as well (now it is { } [ ] ) and i think this should be changed back to the standard order and also perhaps back to number row - what do the others think?
Personally i don’t use TAB much, i would rather press a combination of keys to get a TAB character and use its key for one of the missing keys. The same goes for the PgUp/PgDown keys. We already use modifiers to have the four arrow keys and those are way more important than PgUp + PgDown in my opinion. In particular having the “< > |” key left of “Y” is quite important for the german layout.
By the way, are those red arrow keys on the “fun” layer? If so please add PgUp, PgDn, Pos1, Ende too.
I don’t yet have a clue about that CMD key, what is it used for?
Here is the official german “T1” layout for reference:
And here is the layout of physical keycaps on the model 100:
Edit: I agree with Michael, get rid of the any key and give us one of the missing keys, like the accents ` ´.