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
Gamebreaking problem that I have yet to solve: This keyboard does not maintain connectivity when my PC is put to sleep or rebooted. This is an obnoxious thing to deal with forcing me to unpair and repair the keyboard before being able to use it at all. Thank god I don't have a password required to log into the computer or that would lengthen the process by a few minutes.
The "pairing" seems fickle at best. I can't tell if I'm pairing over an existing connection or using the "secondary" pair. And the only way I can seem to turn the thing off is by getting into the pairing mode (blinking insert key) and then holding insert. If it's a solid Insert, 9 times out of 10 I can't turn it off.
I would've much preferred a designated power (and pairing) button as opposed to a silly combination of keys that you have to remember or decipher to do simple operations. This is especially silly when the keyboard isn't trying to be compact! It's not a 60%, it's a ten-keyless. There is no space saving they're trying to achieve. Just a silly design choice that proves to be more problematic than anything.