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 original can be seen here (Wired version) http://www.amazon.com/Noppoo-Mechanical-Gaming-Keyboard-Switches/dp/B00A45WJZA
According to Noppoo's website the Choc Mini 2M version looks like this http://www.thenoppoo.com/china/content.asp?id=161
Notice the caps key and shift key are completely different, not to mention the LED's
So I'm confused, I am unable to find a picture of a choc mini that looks exactly like the one shown here. Most have a hole in caps key (for the LED) or have coloured function keys but the one shown here is all black and white. This and the fact that quite a lot of people are mentioning bent boards or wobbly keys makes me think that Massdrop is selling fake Chinese rip-off's. I hope somebody can shed some light on this but it seems fishy to me.