I was wondering if this is going to change anytime soon...
OSX uses the x.org windowing system, does it not? Shouldn't the Linux/*BSD/OpenSolaris implementation be possible to derive from it? ..or is this at the DE level?
See, I was trying to figure out why my special characters weren't working... then I cam across that little snippet of text you see in the title. Now, I kinda want those special characters... and it'd also be nice to have a greek letter set as well...
I'm thinking of a new colemak version with the following changes:
integrated one handed typing
special characters via altgr \ key
greek characters via altgr \ shift+key
caps lock in place of old backspace, for those coders who still use it.
..but Shai is probably pretty busy already.. Should we start a roadmap discussion?
certainly there will be those users who just want to use colemak to /type/, but then there are the
multilinguals
mathematicians
programmers
librarians
We've already got the multilingual people taken care of for the most part I think, insomuch as it's practical, but it seems the librarians are tied to proprietary operating systems... you know, theoretically, there is a librarian or two who types in colemak...
Or perhaps it's time to step back and say 'wait, linux is just an /operating system/, colemak just a /keyboard layout/, you know... https://xkcd.com/198/