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
Just because a keyboard supports Bluetooth and has a battery, it doesn’t mean it won‘t work with a regular cable. My Anne Pro has great Bluetooth, and it also works hardwired. I can even disconnect he battery, and it still types like a dream. It cost $80, it works with my iPad, and it has full RGB. I see so many ridiculously expensive keyboards on this site, and they rarely ever have Bluetooth. For me, it’s an absolutely necessary feature for something I will be carrying around in my backpack.
That said, I've been a Thinkpad user for the past 15 years, so I'm used to trackpoints. YMMV.