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
As of now it has been twelve days since the Ducky Pocket drop which dropped in April should have shipped.
https://www.massdrop.com/buy/ducky-pocket-rgb-mechanical-numpad/talk
As you can see, the group has not received ANY word from massdrop. No shipping notifications, no update. Nothing.
I have reached out to support several times, and all I was told is that it "was flagged to the logistics team". Nothing but vague answers, no word on when it will ship, no updates to the group.
This isn't just incredibly unprofessional, it reeks of criminality. Massdrop simply went off with our money and is now ignoring us and hoping for all of us to just accept that we'll probably never get to see the numpads we paid for!