Question answering time!
Will is support a 1.5 0 1.5 spacebar 1.5 0 1.5 but without the short right shift/FN key?
Basically, yes. In practice if you put nothing between alt and ctrl, you'll have exposed holes in the pcb. The shift layout is independent from bottom row - see next quotes.
Depending on which plates will be produced, there may be one which covers the space between alt and ctrl or not. If there isn't, look at this post:
I'll run any plate design if a .dwg is provided to me. However ordering just one or two is going to be ~$25 per plate even on a small plate.
What layouts does it support? Is it like the 365 mini because that's the one I liked the most.
The best answer to this is this post:
I think it will support any standard alpha-num layout available, those of which are interchangeable among each other (as in, you can combine any R1 combo with any R2 combo, and with ANSI or ISO Enter cluster layout, etc.). There is an option for the Right Shift/Fn cluster to have it [ 2.75 ] - [ 1 | 1.75 ] -or- [ 1.75 | 1 ] as on the Left Shift you can either have ANSI [ 2.25 ] or ISO [ 1.25 ]. At least that's how I've understood it so far.
Let's make this official: three clusters, configurable independently by soldering switches to right places:
* enter zone: ANSI 2.25 enter and 1.5 "|\", ISO vertical enter with one key to the right of "
* left shift zone (2 options): ANSI 2.25, ISO 1.25 + 1u key
* right shift zone (3 options): ANSI/ISO 2.75, short 1.75 + 1u key to the right, short 1.75 + 1u key to the left
* bottom row (3 options): standard poker (3x1.25,6.25,4x1.25), model m (1.5,1,1.5,7,1.5,1,1.5), lysol (1.5,1.5,7,1.5,2x1,1.5).
For those of you who don't want to solder switches yourself I may provide a soldering service if I get enough orders to buy switches from cherry at sensible prices, or from 7bit.
Komar, if i'll already have plate for Poker will i be able to use it with standard ANSI GH60? I do remember reading in this thread about that Poker switchers are shifted a little bit or something like that. Did you take that into account with latest revisions?
So far the distances between switches are 19mm spot on. This is different than standard 19.05 and slightly different than poker, I think. Most probably I'll change it to be the same as in poker, but I can't promise anything.
I can't imagine there would have to be a plate design for every possible layout...that would be madness! I'd say take a vote for the most popular 2-3 layouts. If alot of people are doing this to have an ISO 60%, then that may be a popular choice, but you've gotta put your foot down somewhere! lol
Designing plates for all options is not a problem, there are only 18 of them, so it's a matter of designing a base drawing, then a total of 8 small parts for the 3 clusters and then someone has to sit down and copy and paste these clusters in 18 different variants.
I definitely think we should settle upon at most 2 different plates (I think model m style bottom row was considered), ISO and ANSI, to satisfy most people at lowest price, and then provide drawings for all of them, so that everybody can send them to The_Beast and get whichever option they want.