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
Why can tiny companies like KBParadise and Varmilo offer a dozen different switch types yet its soooo hard for DAS just to throw people a bone with just one on a limited run?
Another way DAS can look at this is as a good will gesture for bold face lying and leading people early on with the DAS 4C: They put Greetechs in it and didn't tell anyone. They've always used Cherry switches so that's what people expected. Now I don't want to debate which switch is better or worse - it's the fact that they never advertised this early on (it's on their website now - probably had too many returns due to their treachery.)
This just smells. Just like initial TaoHao Alps, GMK's, and the Topre keyset. Companies want to complain there is no business but don't want to move their ass to make money.
I can see right now just over a 100 boards have been sold. I can tell you KBP/Varmilo would be foaming at the mouth for those kind of sales.
Thank the baby jesus those companies exist.