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
1. The spacebar does feel a little mushy, and misses sometimes. I haven't noticed anywhere near the 80% misses some people are talking about; it gets it 95% of the time for me. Still not great, but I may just need to learn to type on it better. 2. My J key is depressed. It's not actuated, but the keycap sits about a millimeter under the rest. Actually, while typing this it's popped back up somehow... It seems to just be a little sticky. 3. The function layer on my 61 key is... not great. Dedicated keys to turn on layouts for games I don't play is probably useful to some, but I really want to reprogram this to have my standard layout for 60%s. Also, the WASD function, which supposedly turns WASD into arrow keys, only works for ASD. And the LED indicators showing this don't turn back off or revert to my other LED mode when I deactivate WASD mode.
Is there any way we can get the firmware or QMK support??
I'm really happy with the look of the keyboard, and I got this because I wanted to try a unique switch type. I don't understand the people complaining because they feel weird... I thought that was the point. I like it. I just really want to reprogram it.
But the problem isn't that these are different switches and so feel different. The switch mechanism itself is actually good. But I think they added foam which has made them mushy, and the stabilizers are horrendous.