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
Why is there no build guide for it? It was only pure luck I found someone on geekhack who had built and documented the build of the keyboard only a month earlier - if it wasn't for this I would have irreversibly installed the switches and top plate before trying to install the stabilisers - which is correct on the ErgoDox I have (which actually had a build guide!)
Default firmware is useless in Linux - as the keymap used out of the box has tilde/backtick where escape should be (have you tried to get out of vi without access to an ESC key?) - I installed the keys as outlined in the example image on the main description page thinking this would be the keymap used (due to NO other documentation being available!) - clearly this was wrong.
Again following the above details documented on geekhack I'm encountering a problem with trying to flash a keymap to the keyboard which will actually be useful for me, but the linked software does not recognise the keyboard is in flashing mode (well, I think it is...) but I don't know - because no documentation! Is there an entry-level guide to flashing a keymap available somewhere?
All that said however, it IS an absolute joy to type on - hence why I want it to be right so I can use it.
Though I do agree that this information should at least be linked on the massdrop page.