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
I have this along with a M65 RGB. It's great but the Cue Link software is a bit buggy with profile loading (not), things crapping out and at times the keys not working until focusing on the Cue control software. It's getting better though with firmware updates. Mine has Cherry MX Reds. Crazy options with lights and best of all a rock solid aluminum frame. That alone beats the Chroma for me. All that said...very nice.
This was in addition to other software issues I was having as well, hence the uninstall.