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
Will there be an option for black Keycaps?
The description mentions choice of backlighting colors. Can the backlighting also be dimmed?
Is the programming "baked in" to the keyboard, so that a programmed keyboard can be taken between multiple computers while maintaining programming and without installing driver software?
Will there be Mac support? I.e. will there be "command" keycaps included, and can the keyboard be programmed to swap the positions of the Alt and Windows/Command keys?
Thanks!
Massdrop's new design choice of semi-infinite scroll on comments display means not all comments are CTRL+F-able until you've managed to page down and back up and back down enough times to convince the site to load the entire comment history. This coupled with the lack of any built in comments search means that I can't quite fault people who give up before they've managed to make a complete search of things.
Kudos for the "just follow OverKill's comment history" suggestion, it's just a shame that such workarounds are so very sorely needed. :)