Personally not familiar with VIA, let me have a look real quick.
config.qmk.fm is not a bad tool, it’s just limited in comparison to C.
VIA doesn’t support my keeb, so I can’t say. I’m sure it’s fine.
I could totally see myself getting into this but HOLY CRAP massdrop prices for plastic keycaps is insane.
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So don’t buy massdrop?
The only reason I’m buying the massdrop keycap set is because it came on my board.
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Just thinking about layout things…
- Must have classic arrow keys.
- I use Home and End a lot. Filling out the sides of the arrow keys is ideal for positioning since I’m likely immediately using those anyways.
- Must have a numpad, I use excel way to much to not have it. Don’t/won’t use NumLock for switching around I hate that.
- I use F2 a lot because of excel. It’s a shortcut for “edit cell/name/selection” for a lot of things, want it easier to reach.
- I use PageUp and PageDown a lot. Generally when reading. Bottom right corner is the best area for lazy accessing.
- Also want Ctrl right next to the arrow keys. I use that combination a lot
- Delete has to be right next backspace, or a little lower.
- For some reason, I can’t seem to remember the locations of the F-keys very well. Something about it mildly confuses me. Grouping in 3’s or even 2’s might fix that.
- Who the fuck actually uses Capslock and Insert? What keyboard shortcuts actually make use of these? I only ever touch these accidentally or to turn them back off. Same thing with Scroll Lock and it’s been two decades since I’ve had a real reason to use Pause/Break.
- I do actually like having a Printscreen key. It’s sorta silly, but I use it enough it’s useful and I don’t have to poorly remember yet another shortcut.
- I remember long ago kinda preferring the ISO vertical Enter key over the ANSI horizontal. Actually it might have been the “Bigass Enter” instead, which still allowed the pinky to easily reach the edge but stopped “/” mispresses.
- Probably set some keys on the far left o Volume Up/Down. Same thing with monitor brightness. I miss old monitors that had those dials on the bottom you could quickly fuss with.
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I’ll be returning the Drop caps I got for the GK61X, but I think I’ll keep the GK61X itself. I got the caps off Amazon, so I have no shame returning them! They weren’t as black as I was expecting. They do sound slightly better than my old Ducky caps that I’m putting back on it, but for the price I’m going to look for a different set of caps.
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I but the bullet and got the kdbfans kit, not proud of the price but… I donno, it just seemed to come together, the asthetics, metal case, south leds, lots of features as easily selected add-ons on their site. The appeal of QMK being common on most PCBs, it’s flashed over and you don’t have to run janky questionable software that still can’t change base layer.
The syringe is in the arm, here we go…
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Is this format good or you are trying to be more compact?
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I’m basically taking the Leopold FC980m I have, and thinking about the changes I’d need to make to eventually make the perfect board (from scratch).
Unfortunately I’m forgetful and clumsy/uncoordinated, and this shows up in my typing. I need at least a little bit of negative “indexing” space in order to keep track of where I am or I start making more errors than words. So ultracompact keyboards that rely on a lot of multi-key presses to function are not good for me.
At the same time, the classic full width layout is just too damn big. My Leopold FC980m is a great size, and could be made more functional with just one more key width.
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So, as much as massdrop makes great keyboards, I just noticed that they’re doing the typical “cool at first glance, a nightmare under the hood” thing that’s basically been trademarked by Massdrop now.
Turns out Massdrop basically forced QMK into violation of the ATSAM HAL licensing, or possibly GPL. The github discussion hasn’t really come to a conclusion, so I’m assuming they hashed this out on IRC…
I’m slowly coming to the conclusion that I might have to get a new board, which I am not happy about.
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Alright, looking at other options: what would you call 60% with an F row?
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I don’t have the energy to put in all the quotes to react to but
I look forward to your configs/methods for qmk, i’ve tried to look up tutorials for macro’s but i don’t have any experience with C (just python) so it would cost quite some energy to figure it out.
You don’t have to buy a keycap set from massdrop for it to work. The layout is pretty standard.
Qmk is pretty free right? So you can still put in your own matrix to use with qmk. Someone will probably do this, or maybe you can download the current one.
I’d say a 60% with F keys is maybe a 65% or 75%? I have a Massdrop ctrl that i’m selling because i have a ymdk melody 96. They also have a 84% which looks like 60% with F row and most of their stuff has qmk support.
Like this one I’m not sure if each led is addressable in this one.
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Pfft, that just the excuse du jour. Custom sets have always had lead times of a year if not more for other oddietes happening, especially stuff like Signature Plastics and now GMK
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75% usually or there about.
Okay been doing much more sorting of my random bags of caps, into groups of translucent, pudding, alps, other mount, DSA, XDA, cherry profile smooth and rough and OEM profile.
Translucent
Other mount, please advise.
XDA Profile
DSA Profile
Alps mount
Cherry profile rough
Cherry profile smooth
OEM
In other news, fucking lol
Ed: interesting this is miss in the the alternate space bar style that I have in mine, I like being able to choose and actually prefer the alt one. Hmmm
$85
Mine
https://m.aliexpress.com/item/1005002687837841.html
Less a couple of space bars, a few keys and ISO return.
Has alternate nice space bar instead.
$30
Same set
I would like the ISO but I am sure I will be able to get then as a cheap addon from AliExpress too.
You know how they say people in hobbies have problems…
At least I have not hit that point yet (all the flat boxes are cap sets, the bags go all the way back and have bags of switches too)…
Not pictured, multiple boards…
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At the end I think the GK sounds amazing and he didn’t even put tape on the bottom of the PCB yet. I want to hear it with the tempest mod and maybe pandas.
Yeah… I’ve been on this yellow brick road all weekend, this is not mentally healthy.
Gives me a bit of buyers remorse before my stuff even arrives because it’s obtrusive AF to do this to a tofu (Dremel the mounts and some of the PCB). I think as far as I want to take it is just gasket the screws and tempest.
I ordered gateron blues but I don’t want hella clicky sounding so I hit up kdbfans on discord to swap it out to gateron rdg browns.
So on that note, how crappy are browns? On paper they sound like what I want but people says it’s not really tactile but more like a grain of sand for into the housing. What is the ‘feels the most like a blue without the click noise as possible’ switch?
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i’ve read comments in more than one place saying things like cherry clears are “what browns should be” and “should be the default switch”
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On the browns, they are more tactile then that but not by a lot.
For blues tactility without the click, Cherry Clears (not gaterons their are linear) or like the ZealPC Zealio or Gazzew Boba. The first two are sharper bumps with a little pretravel the last is rounder bump that starts immediately.
I wish there was a big box store with one of those 100 switch displays that lets you test every switch haha
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Instead you can get the switch tester frames. In 8, 12, … 96, switch variants with everything you could want to feel.
They don’t cost too much, and later you can wire them to into a macro pad, fun learning and you get a thing.
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Yeah I was hoping to not spend more $$ but saw some of those on ebay. If kbddans swaps my switches the gateron browns sound like they are an improvement over mx browns and just slightly short of the better options, so here is to hoping they feel good for my tastes.
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