Products · Pattern or everyday thing
Icelandic keyboard layouts
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 4 years (2019–2022), in 4 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 4 complaints
- Programming symbols like braces and semicolon are hidden under modifier combos, hard to type2022-11-17
- Common symbols like @ and brackets are hidden behind AltGr or awkwardly placed on Nordic keyboards2021-04-09
- Brackets need AltGr and semicolon needs Shift, which is irritating for programming2020-07-15
- Takes a moment to find punctuation and special characters after switching layouts2019-04-16