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
A work in progress, but it's getting there!
Includes a sidecar command station for my mini-me that I can swing around and use for a second monitor when he's not attached to me at the hip.
It looks better than the corrugated plastic junk I've always used, it feels very high quality (like those anti-fatigue mats you woukd stand on) and the foam also has considerable structure to it, so I was able to secure it to the desk where it goes behind the shelves in such a way that there is no weight pulling on the motherboard outputs at all. The only thing I could see being a problem for some is that the curve is VERY set on this stuff, so if your application requires a straight line, this may not be the product for you, but who knows, perhaps you could straighten it out with time.
In my application I like the curved look anyway.
As pretty as the machine is to look at, I feel I really need to call attention to the Monitor for a moment.
Since I built this Beast about 2 months ago, I've tested it's performance in a variety of different settings, e.g. 65" 4k television, 200"+ Home Cinema Projector, and even 3 sweet 1440 IPS displays in surround mode...
Yet, in the end I bought the one you see in my battlestation, not because it fits perfectly in the eccentric shelvedesk I chose as a base (which it does) and not because it happened to be in stock and on sale at Fry's when I went to buy the GTX 1080ti (which it was) but because I wanted to see what gaming at 165hz refresh rate with NVIDIA's g-sync felt like.
I have to drop a few of the settings in a some of the games I play to maintain a consistent frame rate near 165, but the slight dip in detail means nothing at all when you experience how unbelievably smooth the movement becomes!!
After a few weeks gaming exclusively on this setup, I tried to help my son get through a part in Horizon Zero Dawn on the PS4, which is one of this console generation's crowning jewels as far as graphics are concerned, and I couldn't believe how badly it seemed to stutter when quickly looking around.... How did I never notice that before?
I can't praise this thing highly enough, though I almost wish I had splurged the extra $$ on the IPS version, because it took quite a lot of futzing with the settings to get the colors to feel just right, and I hear that is not such an issue with IPS panels.
With the sale going on at the time though, the price differential was considerably larger than it is now, and I had already burned a great big pile of money on this thing as it is!!
My Version https://www.amazon.com/PG279Q-2560x1440-G-SYNC-Gaming-Monitor/dp/B01N4ENDXR with IPS https://www.amazon.com/PG279Q-2560x1440-G-SYNC-Gaming-Monitor/dp/B017EVR2VM
Got pics of the T?