Glad you are enjoying it so far :P

This is a non-issue. No-one is forcing anyone to remap Capslock. If you want to use Colemak without remapping Capslcok, you can. This is such a minor deal anyway. There are plenty of reasons why people choose not to switch to Colemak, but the Capslock issue must be about last on the list. Some people even remap capslock on Qwerty.

Well, "official" Colemak puts backspace there. Are you suggesting you use CapsLock more than Backspace? There is no way that Capslock is more common than backspace, so this change *does* lead to less finger movement. But anyway, if you really want capslock in place, then keep it. It's your system, you can do what you want. Anyway there are better solutions than Backspace or Capslock which are more ergonomic. I refer you to DreymaR's Extend layer.

What evidence do you have for this claim?

I take back what I said above about caplock. For heavens sake, get rid of your capslock.

What are you talking about?? Colemak doesn't say anything about remapping Alt keys.

Workman is not nonsense, but nor is it a very good layout IMNSHO. Also, in the same opinion you're allowed to call Norman nonsense because it is. ;-)

Yes, Shai used computer algorithms to help him create Colemak, but not exclusively. There was a pretty solid thousand hours' work load in optimizing and testing the various possibilities, as computer programs couldn't quite tell you what would actually work best – at least not at the time (and IMNSHO not now either). Unfortunately, he never got around to writing the book on Colemak, so we have but scanty evidence for the exact methodology.

If you use my XKB solution, the CapsLock thing is entirely optional. But I strongly recommend Extend!!! :-)

Hi DreymaR.  I tried Norman once, it felt good, I even liked it, until my fingers started to hurt a bit... Good intentions. It's designer should have read these forums beginning from the oldest posts. It never occurred to me read the forums starting from those oldest posts until just yesterday. There are a lot of replies from Shai there! and he explains a lot!  I recommend everyone to start reading the oldest posts in these forums if they want to learn more about Colemak!

Yeah, I suspected you knew about the subject!  Thanks for clarifying a bit. Shai should really write a book about Colemak!

The QUICKIE seems very practical! About youx XKB solution and Extend, I need to download it and check it out again to see if it can give me unmodded coleman layout with extra layers?

I like that phrase. So if we see Colemak as just the main layout then somebody could make an installer that installs a vanilla Colemak version with right alt as alt and capslock as capslock!. No questions asked. Download, run, enjoy! Wait! Isn't that almost what DreymaR's installer does? I need to check it out.

So, ckofy, what do you use to do what you mention, DreymaR solution?, programmable keyboards?, do you modify the layouts yourself? or how do you do it?

I've used different approaches. Need to say, I'm using Windows only, have some use of linux, but it is so minor that I never bothered with reconfiguring it. So, at first I just installed vanilla Colemak as another layout in Windows. Then, after some experimenting, I went to angle-wide mod and eventually to Colemak Mod-DH, so using PKL is way more convenient for these. And finally, I switched to programmable keyboards exclusively, my Windows live happily in QWERTY world and knows not about the alternative layouts. I found that approach more healthy, at least for Windows. Strange things happens with this OS sometimes. Say, I still have qwerty as one of the layers in my keyboards, not that I use it, but couple times my desktop where only qwerty exists suddenly switched to vanilla Colemak  in login window (Colemak was uninstalled long ago, so no switching options provided!). Imagine applying Colemak on the top of Colemak? That is when having qwerty may be handy, so I can at least enter login in Colemak.