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'm not perfect either, just like all of us, sometimes to short tempered, my fingers typing faster than my brain analyzing, should I write that.
I like free speech and that there is hardly any censoring by mods, but honestly, sometimes I wish some people would get a little reminder, not in public, to calm down a bit like:
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We're all human beings here, with feelings that can be hurt.
Of course, hardly anyone would agree to be hurt, we're all though cookies here, aren't we :)
What about volunteers of different languages to help out others if they've questions being "discussed" in their natural language. Many people think, english language should be given, but it aint so for a lot of nice people out there.
I like to hear your thoughts about this topic!
Never forget, all of us being noobs in one way or the other,
even though we like to forget :)