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
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I remember the good old days when laptops were more blockish and heavy, but they also didn't have the horrible chicklet keys that you see on the ultra-thin notebooks of today. I even remember the Tandy 102's keyboard, which writers swore by:
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I don't personally care about the laptop enclosure having a battery or charge controller or trackpad, although these would be nice. I just don't want to ever own another laptop that has a horrible keyboard. And the Rpi is just fast enough for my activities. Would I accept 1 more pound (0.5 kg) of weight to achieve this? Yes!