And also what about the vim key? Can I order it? :-)
VIM key added (white on green, spherical, row 3).
Other colors, key families on demand...
Same question
Edit: Read the wiki (it should be placed in the SC section for easier viewing imo). Yes it is.
Edit2: There's no WASD only kit (ideally with legends)??
WASD only kit added.
My concerns, regarding this group buy:
- Profile: Any chance of getting less angled/steep profile for the lower rows ? The profile from R3 might be good for people that elevate the back end of their keyboard, but when you don't, that's way too much.
No chance!
It is DCS or SA family. Period.
- Crappy molding: Some (most) keys from R3 seem to be a bit tilted and are not perfectly parallel to the neighboring keys. OK, "perfect" may not be the ideal term, but when compared to any Cherry set (for instance), it sucks rotten donkey balls.
see above ...
- Short and/or spaceless modifier labels: Your mileage will most likely vary, but I do prefer the good old tried and true "Ctrl", "Alt Gr", "PgUp", "PgDn", "Ins" and "Del" to those full-text labels (it's even worse when it's all-caps). Also, that space is horrible: "Caps Lock", "Back Space"... doh. Can you consider symbols-only for those (shift, caps, tab, enter, backspace, home, page up, page down), as an alternative ?
The following kits will have 'standard' labeling:
RETRO, DARK, maybe ALPS.
Symbols only should be no problem as long as we stick to the SP-symbols for those keys.
However, the CHERRY supplement kits, which provide the Cherry-style symbols, can also be done in other colors. BTW: There might be a good chance, that we will do a Handbag key for
Caps Lock position.
- Quality-testing: Can we dream about SP sending you (7bit, most likely) samples, in order to rule-out their crappy work ? That means checking on wrong accents, badly-sized characters, and other oddities they may produce out of thin air (since the references sent to them seemed quite ok) ?
I'm not sure if they have layout samples for what they will produce, but at least we will not wait for months until somone with a camera received his keys to see if they where OK. Next time, a quality check must be done before shipping starts.
I will also address the crooked key issue.
I guess that's all for the time being.
pffffff ...