Support for Alternative Layouts
This is a summary of how alternative layouts have been supported by kits such as Colevrak and Homing. It is not a discussion of alt layout performance and development, but if that interests you I highly recommend starting with Pascal Getreuer’s A guide to alt keyboard layouts (why, how, which one?). It’s a concise and comprehensive overview with links to some great sites that go deeper. He also has a separate Links about keyboards page. The Keyboard layouts doc he recommends explains layout goals and metrics in detail, summarizing the alt layouts discussed here as well as more than one hundred others. Sculpted-profile The majority of custom keycap sets are sculpted-profile (Cherry, SA, MT3, KAT, etc. - more on profiles generally here) so let’s start there. Because each row has a unique keycap shape, alt layouts require a unique keycap for each legend that moves off its QWERTY row. At first there were two The Dvorak layout was patented in 1936 by August Dvorak & William L....
Apr 23, 2024
The mouse wrist pad/supporter is to steep, hard or small to actually prevent the strain issues it is meant for. Instead of your desk pressing into your arm, the wrist pad will and the strain returns. The keyboard version, however does do its job fairly well.
Alternative to this drop: If you're getting strain issues on the wrist of your "mouse arm", I'd first recommend getting a desk chair that can support your arms. Second, make sure your arm can lie flat on your desk. Both tips prevent one single pressure point from existing, thus preventing most common strain issues and making this drop partially unnecessary.