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
MD usually is only the middle man and i see it as some kind of shopping mall. You buy your Gateron switches and keycaps and keyboards from different companys/people and it can't be the problem of company C that you have bought switches before from company A.
The exception of the rule is for example any Infinity project, where MD isn't only the middle man and there you usually get the options you're asking for.
Of course i would like to get a Corsair K65 RGB, i love the look, without red switches, because i don't like them and solder different switches, but this wont happen, which i understand, but i don't understand they're not offering a wider variety of switches.
But MD might be able to ask for another drop for the case alone, if other pcbs might fit, in the future.