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
When they decide to support something, it will always happen regardless of who is running the Group Buy.
Bless them for being here and making MD a far better place to get things from all over the world.
Keycaps can be categorized in 2 ways. 1) computer keyboard accessories (no import tax) 2) plastic accessories (20% import tax)
Both categorization is legally correct.
As my country has no import tax for computer related items, if the seller described keycaps in the category (1), so no import tax imposed.
So far, 1) I bought keyboard from MD, no import tax. 2) I bought keycaps from MD, 20% import tax. 3) I bought keycaps from taobao GB, no import tax.
It's nobody fault really. It's just that taobao sellers have been main players in Asian market for a long time and they are good at keeping cost low.
That is what Key-caps are, so I'm surprised that MassDrop hasn't done that yet.
Simple to do and very legal under any circumstance here.