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
Also good news, the PCB supports full RGBLED SMD backlighting and also split backspace! (note: plate has to be modified for split backspace, also it's missing a diode) However I test soldered an LED under escape and it didn't work. I think this needs to be enabled in firmware. I did update firmware to the latest though. Right now my only complaint is the nonstandard layout of the numberpad with numlock on. All of those keys are already available on the tenkey, who do you have to shuffle them around? I get that some people like the inverted T arrows instead of the + arrows on the tenkey but some of us are used to such things (I have had lightsaver since V1 came out). Oh well, maybe they will update the firmware again and it will make it better. Latest firmware with user manual is here http://www.vortexgear.tw/vortex3.asp I'm hoping they release a RGBLED firmware for it, so I can finish swapping switches and modding the plate. too much to ask I think though.