Hi :) I read all replies to the list and off-list.
Thank you. Hi Gustin :) Gustin Johnson wrote: > I have no idea why the he Y and Z are changed for English vs Deutsche > speakers. I was referring to the Dvorak layout among one such > alternative to the standard QWERTY layout. Supposedly it is a more > natural and efficient layout, but backward compatibility with the steam > age has meant that we are likely stuck with the QWERTY layout for the > foreseeable future. This does not make it the better or more efficient > choice, it is merely the layout in use. I didn't know this layout. There seems to be a different German version too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_Simplified_Keyboard Maybe this layout would be the better choice, but all computers than should use this layout. If it just will be used by some computers, we will become troubles, when we are looking for a job or we just use the computer of a friend. Hypothetical there might be two problems. Maybe two finger writers wish to have less economical keyboards, because than the arms and fingers must take walks, that will create patterns for the movements, so we have movements patterns for words and shell commands. We don't remember where on the keyboard the letters are, we need visually control, but we unknowingly know the movements to type a word. Perhaps those patterns will be possible for the Dvorak layout too. The other problem might be, the difference off left and right handed people, not because of the physiology, but because of the way the brain works. It would be better to speak from left and right hemisphere people. Artists often are left handed or like I'm, right handed but dyslexic or something like that. The brain might work different for a typist and for a wordsmith, but I guess we won't have different keyboard layouts. For software this means to take care about what cerebral hemisphere is dominating by the user. The GUI for an office suite should be different to that of an application used by artists, but often software isn't made for artists. There is one very good application for Linux: http://www.tuxpaint.org/?lang=de This layout isn't good for OOo, but something like that might be better for Rosegarden. To be honest, it's not easy to carry it over to Rosegarden ;). When making GUIs for any OS, this should be something that should given more attention. Cheers, Ralf
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