#More profiles

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opal rain
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Look, I am not sure exactly how it works, but I'm pretty sure that the reason we can't have more profiles is because of the limit on memory on the keyboard. So I think it would be cool if they made it so that the memory was available to all profiles and was divided equally among each profile, and it just kept getting smaller the more profiles you make. I do not use that many of the "advanced features" meaning my profiles are not even close to the max amount of memory you're allowed to put on each profile. So it would be probably fine for them to have more profiles as long as the ability to have as much memory on each one was adjusted. To avoid losing backwards compatibility you could dynamically adjust it basically based on total memory, and just divide that by the number of profiles.

raven wave
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A different approach (that another company went with) is not having layers at all, rather people can use profiles as layers if they wish. That’d free up an additional 12 profiles to use. I honestly prefer that, it gives more freedom so to say.

opal rain
raven wave
# opal rain I like the profiles, also that would probably break backwards compatibility

I haven’t found a benefit that layers have over just using profiles as layers, quite the oppositie actually. I have multiple profiles that I want the same “layer layouts” on and by having solely profiles, you don’t need to copy or redo the layer layout for each profile, you can just bind Fn-Profile 4 (either hold or toggle).

Dynamic memory allocation would be fine too but I’d expect that to be more difficult. IIRC, the memory for advanced keys is different from the memory where profiles and such are stored on, if that is the case, dynamic memory allocation wouldn’t help that much (as layers are populated with binds by default).

opal rain
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idk, I just need a 5th profile

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and it wouuld divide better on the 80he led bar

raven wave
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another profile for the light bar? 😭

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not even to use?

opal rain