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"Virtual Keyboard" backgrounds for the Lenovo Yogabook 9i
Add custom keyboard overlays (more like underlays) optimized to the "Virtual Keyboard" for the Lenovo YogaBook 9i laptop.
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.
I guess Apple tried something similar with the "TouchBar" 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!) - 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.