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
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I have been waiting for longer then a year for this. Without the ergodox, i can't continui programming. My keyboard doesnt allow me totype and work faster.
I don't have patients with this drop anymore. I need it to boost my career. I'm going to buy the ergodox ez. Sad that the ez doesn't have lcd display.
You can reach me at olivier.pons on gmail (it can't be easier!).
I have a planck keyboard, a preonic keyboard, and the Infinity.
Here are my notes for the ergonomic side: - 20/20 for the Infinity - 18/20 for the preonic - 09/20 for the planck (the missing row is definitely a major problem, I just can't use the keyboard at all)
Here are my notes for the source code + compilation: - with qmk_firmware : 20/20 for all the keyboards (and that's what you get with preonic and planck) - with original Infinity firmware : kiibohd : 05/20 (it wasn't even working on the Infinity right out of the box (and the author did recognize this himself WTF you have to look for older kiibohd releases))
The only thing that is better IMHO with plank and preonic is the sound: I've assigned a "bip" when going "up" layer and "bop" when going down, and it's incredibly effective! I'm missing those beeps on my Infinity, but everything else is much better on the Infinity!
The Planck I ordered in February was scheduled for May and delivery was delayed again just this week because there are not enough parts. Can't deny I'm really worried if the missing row is really that much of a problem, I hope you won't mind if I contact you at some later point for help.
By the way, I'm running Ubuntu 18.04 at the moment, do you think I'll be able to compile the QMK firmware without having to use some sort of Windows emulator?
=____= Now I'm really missing some Youtube ASMR videos of the Planck and Ergodox. Last one (an unboxing of the Falbatech Ergodox) is already a big month old. Vvlierberghe, when you receive that Ergodox EZ of yours, be sure to send us a little thrill, 'kay?