On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 1:48 AM Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: > > On 05/20/2020 12:44 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: > > On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 4:36 PM Thierry Parmentelat wrote: > > >> I also reckon it is still cumbersome to simply enter Unicode characters > >> from a keyboard sometimes; I guess if the big players were located in > >> other countries that would maybe be different.But that will change > >> over time, no matter the speed, some day that will be for granted.So > >> again maybe 2020 is the right time to break that barrier ? > > > > The Dvorak keyboard was invented nearly a hundred years ago. How's it > > looking as a viable alternative? > > Well, 25 years ago I had to write my own Dvorak device driver for use with > MS-DOS, now it's included in at least Windows and Linux (a Dvorak mapping, > not my device driver). > > So much more viable. :) > > > If you think that a keyboard with fancy arrows on it will take off any > > quicker, you're extremely hopeful. > > I wouldn't be surprised if it did, although a standard set of keyboard > shortcuts is more likely.
I'm pretty doubtful. Keyboards seem to be LOSING keys, not gaining them. Which is a trend that I deplore (where are my F1-F12 keys?? and I doubt I'll ever see F13-F16), but I still cling to the hope that not ALL keyboards are going that way. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/EVTELEZWVETEFZ2GPCRTVBDI2SKWQKGT/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
