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
Did I just get a bad rest? Do any of them have feet on them and/or have the same contour as the ones in the pictures?
Edit: Looking back at the description, one of the top selling points of this rest was the angle shown in the picture. It actually looks nothing like the one in the picture, in addition to the angle being non-existent, the front corners of mine are rounded off and have an entirely different shape.
I'll trade you a TKL Leather Wrist Rest for your Royal Glam if you don't like it.
I am still a bit disappointed that the rest doesn't have the same shape and angle as the ones pictured in the description does, but I can live with it. Thanks!