Summary: | RFE: Programmer Dvorak | ||
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Product: | xkeyboard-config | Reporter: | Roland Kaufmann <rlndkfmn+freedesktop> |
Component: | General | Assignee: | xkb |
Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | All | ||
URL: | http://www.kaufmann.no/roland/dvorak | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
i915 platform: | i915 features: | ||
Attachments: | Unified diff for symbols/us and rules/base.xml.in; apply with `patch -p0 < us-dvp.diff` |
Description
Roland Kaufmann
2008-04-26 12:08:41 UTC
This layout looks rather hackish to me. Are there many people who actually use it? Depends on your definition of "many". Unfortunately I don't have any statistics over the number of downloads to provide nor does users register with me apart from occational emails regarding the installation procedure. However, I find it surprisingly often referenced given that it has had virtually no marketing other than word of mouth and being reachable by search engines. Of course I don't expect anecdotal evidence to carry much weight, but you could do a web search for the phrase "programmer dvorak" (disregarding my site and any posts made by me of course) to see if you are satisfied that its extensiveness of appeal is comparable to the other non-standardized layouts. Does "hackish" refer to any particular trait, such as setting symbols to type ALPHABETIC to have them affected by Caps Lock, or that hackers are amongst its target audience? ;-) I browsed around - it seems your variant is really used by some people. Ok, I'll put it in. Please do not feel offended, the word "hackish" I use for variants which are used by 2-3 people, one of them is young hacker-author;) No offense taken. I am afraid that I can only wish for the label "young" nowadays... :-) I originally created the layout completely for my personal consumption, but in addition put it up on the web site a couple of years ago in case anyone else would find it interesting. It seems that there are more people out there who wish to touch-type their code. :-) Committed! |
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