samedi 28 février 2015

Naming Scheme for Non-US RGB Keyboards is Messed Up

This issue is what keeps us from having universal profiles everyone can use, no matter if you use the US, UK, German, or other version of the RGB K95/70/65 keybaord. If you want universal profiles, make sure Corsair knows. I think with a good naming scheme for the keys, this could be entirely possible. We no longer would have the incompatibility issues between different country's keyboards.





I was working on translating a US lighting profile to a German lighting profile and realized while reading the .prf file that there are a few weird naming schemes Corsair keeps.



1-- The Z key is referenced to as "Y" in lighting but tied to the "Z" action



2-- Multiple keys are referenced that do not exist on the German keyboard such as "[" and "]"; however, are assigned German actions.



3-- "left" versions of keys, such as Left shift, are referred to simply as "shift"



These quirks make it very difficult to make universal content for the RGB keyboards and it is disappointing to me the naming convention is not universal. I have no way of knowing what "[" means on the German keyboard.





I propose a simple solution. Please provide the community with a graphic that shows us what the keys are named for every keyboard layout. Also, could we have default .prf files for every keyboard layout? The RGB community is great, but we are held back from using CUE to its full potential because the naming scheme for keys on different keyboards is not universal.




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