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
Agree on the countdown thing. It's...a feature, I guess? I mean, it's not horrible, it does work well, but I agree it just does not seem terribly necessary
- Set a timer for something (say you have a roast in the oven and want to know when an hour has gone by) - Your keyboard is normal for the first 59 minutes - In the last minute, your keyboard RGBs turn red, and begin 'reverse-snaking', turning off one-by-one, during the last minute. - The 'alarm' is your keyboard flashing red to let you know your timer has expired
It's super quick and easy to set (hit the timer button, hit F6 for 60 minutes, hit timer button again and it's set)
It's not a distracting thing; that is, if you don't want to use it, you can just ignore that function.
...except for the first few days when I was experimenting with it, I've not used the timer though.
Same for the keys with the Rockets on them: how many people actually set the n-key rollover or polling rate? it's nice that they did it, but it feels unnecessary for them to be there
BUT there are many things I like about the keyboard.
FN + F6 and your win key is locked
FN + F8 and you switch your left win and alt keys, FN + F7 and you switch your left shift and caps keys
I like that, if you want ALL lights off, even the capslock indicator, you can hit FN + 0 and all lights go off.
All in all love this keyboard, easy to recommend it to others. That you can buy them on Amazon w/prime shipping direct from IKBC is just icing on the cake. If no one has seen it, IKBC seems to be offering an updated Poker II on their Amazon page? It takes a type-C connection, looks like the case is a little different then the Poker II I used to have.