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
I've come to really like it. I still use my Ergodox mostly, but the Ergodox is so thumb heavy that my thumbs tire out and I need to use something that allows to me relax my thumbs a bit. The Ergo Pro does that for me. The modifier keys are ridiculously oversized to allow you to press it with the edge of your palm so I can do that instead of holding down a modifier key with my thumb.
I still have problems with keys double or triple actuating. Some switches just are prone to doing that, but it's pretty easy to fix. Removing the keycap and putting to back on seems to rattle the switch enough to reset it.