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
And I'd been waiting for the next best solution for a Topre keyboard for a while now, the RealForce RGB with Cherry MX style sliders to be released instead.
It is leaked as the MX sliders, and yea those will be my next topre purchase if I ever do get another.
Fine for youngsters wanting to show off their E-peen to their friends but not fine for adults wanting to use a conservative but decent keyboard.
There are already scores of RGB vegas-styled keyboards provided for, so why not stick to something that really matters, keyboard feel and usage. Concentrate on that and these keyboards will be used decade after decade, whilst all the RGB rubbish gets tossed into landfills ; )