What does the shading around some 48 series keys indicate?

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(04-30-2020 11:10 PM)rprosperi Wrote:  Seems to me that the internal fighting among the dev. team about the 48GX keyboard layout was not settled when the day came to freeze the layout for manufacturing.

Yeah, it sees like something like that happened, at least with regard to the shading. I'd love to know the history.

Most of the layout though is pretty rational and sophisticated. (48 Insights covers it well in section 4.2.) And the apps are more mature and consistent in how they behave than on the S and SX. In fact that's is one of the reasons that inconsistency of the shading stands out so clearly on the G, GX, and G+. On the S and SX the inconsistency isn't so clear, because the apps aren't so fully developed.