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# yogabook-9i-keyboards
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# "Virtual Keyboard" backgrounds for the [Lenovo Yogabook 9i](https://web.archive.org/https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/yoga/yoga-2-in-1-series/yoga-book-9i-gen-8-(13-inch-intel)/len101y0028)
Add custom keyboard overlays (more like underlays) optimized to the "Virtual Keyboard" for the [Lenovo YogaBook 9i laptop](https://web.archive.org/https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/yoga/yoga-2-in-1-series/yoga-book-9i-gen-8-(13-inch-intel)/len101y0028).
# Rationale
The YogaBook 9i is a dual-touchscreen laptop and its manufacturer, Lenovo, doesn't seem to fully realize [or care about] the potentials that a full touchscreen keyboard in a laptop formfactor has. Steve Jobs said in 2007 that this was the problem with smartphones at the time.
> ... they all have these control buttons that are fixed in plastic, and are the same for every application.
>
> \- [Steve Jobs; introducing the iPhone](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQKMoT-6XSg&t=318s)
I guess Apple tried something similar with the ["TouchBar"](https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/Touch_Bar) on their MacBook Pro laptops in 2016. I remember being impressed by it. But the TouchBar was a bit over-ambitious in my option. It relied on application developers to implement custom functionality for it, and it behaved like your standard F1-F12 keys for apps that didn't take advantage of the API. We've seen it countless times what happens when you add features that rely on third-parties (unless you exlusivly use first-party Apple-apps in your workflow). Had Apple, for example, allowed users to create their own "macro keys" with custom labels, colors, or even pictures (think [Stream Deck](https://web.archive.org/https://www.elgato.com/us/en/p/stream-deck-mk2-black)!) - I think it would've seen a lot more use. Lenovo has created a TouchBar ***on steroids*** by making *the entire keyboard* a touchscreen.
Lenovo have added *some* features that take advantage of a screen-keyboard. The most notable feature is the [half-assed] ability to set custom keyboard backgrounds. Lenovo has realized that "design your own keyboard" is a nice personalisation effort, something keyboard enthusiasts have been doing for years.