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 havnt seen information like this i the deskthority wiki, we might have a look at the deskthority forum or geekhack, if i do I'll let you know if I come across anything.
Contributing such information could give fellow people, and yourself, alot more options both when shopping, and in after purchase customization, and switch replacement.. :-) If you do the leg work and let us know and maybe propagate the information on the OTM series switch Gateron compatibility, and any information you've found.
If you got an apls version, or even the cherry stem. I bet there is a high likelyhood it could work, if not with say kailh or gateron switches, but, it might work with other gaote switches, if they share housing compatibility.. Other goat switches are mx compatible, i think, like the pg150 series switches, so, if they are, one might be able to take the top housing from a 150 series switch, and attach it to the bottom housing the the otm series switch.. which then might have compatibility, with gateron and maybe cherry and razer as well, if it doesn't already have it so, at least down to the pins?
if they are coming from the same factory and manufacturer. It would cost money to alter a design so much i would think.. I suspect they would be compatible housing, bt really it' a gamble when we don't know.
there isnt much information in the deskthority wiki about the Outemu switch OTM series switches, https://deskthority.net/wiki/Gaote_PG150_series no measurement of pin distance centre to centre or anything..
At least if they are incompatible, entirely, it could be made known. and even material for someone to make an analysis or something some with other switch someone else might have.
If i have some time later i'll have a look around geekhack and report back here if i find out anything.
I think the specific switches here, are a variation of the Gaote Outemu "OTM Series" switches. I'll keep my eyes open, but if you do like to do some investigative work, lets us know here will ya?
Alright, have a nice day Oxides