On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 11:37:59AM +0200, Thomas Temp� wrote: >Hello, > >I am still working on the design of my French Dvorak keyboard. >I wish to asy you a question about the "digit" keys in the upper row >of the keyboard. > >The original author insists that it is more ergonomic to have symbols >be immediately accessible on those keys, and to use shift to access >digits. This is a peculiarity of the original (AZERTY) keyboard >layout. > >I myself don't quite agree. I feel that the digits should be >immediately accessible. Both of us seem to be stubborn enough >that we should seek the best solution for this problem. > >I'd like to hawe your opinion on that question, and if such information >exists, I'd like to know about any factual information which could >back either opinion.
I'd suggest providing both layouts, and make the default the same as whatever the default is for the AZERTY layout, with the other as a variant. David _______________________________________________ I18n mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n
