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
For mainly Linux, and some Windows 8.1 use, I've been looking for a mech keyboard similar in spec and design to the Gigabyte Force K85. No shouting keyboard. :
- full size
- trimmed right around the keys (no excess, no palm rest)
- floating keys design
- static colour, or off (the other modes and effects are not necessary for me).
But with :
- per key RGB colour selection
And maybe :
- all characters moved to the top of their key cap, over the led
- all the key caps with 2 characters, have the characters side-by-side at the top of their key cap, over the led (like the row of numbers on the Sharkoon Skiller Mech SKG3)
If the Sharkoon Skiller Mech SKG3 did not have the excess metal across the top and bottom it would have been a candidate.
Could you guys and gals push me in the direction of one or more candidates ?
I'm thinking of giving up.