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
My issue, as stated, is with misleading descriptions. Go on Amazon.com or eBay or any other site, and there are tons of listings with "Genuine Leather" in the title.....and if you hunt around carefully enough, somewhere in small print in a wall of text they clarify it's "genuine PU leather." There are tons of people that think "PU leather" is real leather. And there are tons of PU "leather" items sold at prices that would reflect a top grain leather construction (regardless of whether you approve or disapprove of leather), when polyurethane is cheap. Not the case here, obviously, the price is reasonable, but the misleading use of the word leather is still annoying and WRONG. It also makes it harder for Vegans to find animal-free products - did you ever think of that Captain SJW?
There's a reason we don't have "cotton leather" - because it's COTTON, not leather. Just like we don't have clothes advertised as being constructed of "faux cotton." If it's polyurethane, call it polyurethane. Which is environmentally harmful if you want to get technical (as is leather). Wool isn't necessarily friendly to sheep, either, who can be cut badly in the shearing process. Cotton (unless organic) is inundated with tons of pesticides. I could go on and on, but MY POINT WAS merely that the term PU leather is disingenuous at best - but is actively intended to mislead in many instances.
Sheep are rarely cut during shearing if the person doing it knows what they are doing. It's very difficult to accidentally cut an animal with an electric razor.
No, they really don't. As much of the animal is used as possible. I'm not sure where the hides from most US-raised cattle are processed but they aren't typically tossed out. Hide, skin and leather from the US comprises multi-billion dollars worth of exports.
I don't mean to argue about the ethical or environmental issues of leather but we should try to operate with good data.