Usability for touch typers: Keeping fingers on F and J

2014-11-18 Thread Thomas Güttler
situation be improved? Thomas Güttler PS: Here are related questions I asked during the last weeks: http://askubuntu.com/questions/520370/emacs-keybindings-for-all-text-inputs http://askubuntu.com/questions/401595/autocomplete-at-desktop-level -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop

Re: Usability for touch typers: Keeping fingers on F and J

2014-11-18 Thread Thomas Güttler
Am 18.11.2014 um 09:35 schrieb Martin Pitt: Hello Thomas, Thomas Güttler [2014-11-18 9:23 +0100]: Are there any touch typers out there? Don't you feel the pain when pressing Backspace? That's not ergonomic - and at least I - press this key very often. I exclusively touch-type, and indeed

Re: Usability for touch typers: Keeping fingers on F and J

2014-11-19 Thread Thomas Güttler
Am 19.11.2014 um 10:16 schrieb Chow Loong Jin: On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 04:27:51PM +0100, Thomas Güttler wrote: [...] I have seen such keyboards before, but I don't want to leave my concave lenovo trackpoint. This way the switch between keyboard is very small. I have not seen ergonomic

Re: Usability for touch typers: Keeping fingers on F and J

2014-11-20 Thread Thomas Güttler
Am 19.11.2014 um 10:07 schrieb Chow Loong Jin: I'm happily touch-typing on a QWERTY keyboard (Thinkpad X230 user here) at 120WPM. I don't really have much of a problem hitting backspace or return/enter. I'm also an Emacs user, and the only thing that really bothered me was the location of

Re: Usability for touch typers: Keeping fingers on F and J

2014-11-20 Thread Thomas Güttler
Am 21.11.2014 um 05:45 schrieb Chow Loong Jin: On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 02:34:11PM +0100, Thomas Güttler wrote: Am 19.11.2014 um 10:07 schrieb Chow Loong Jin: I'm happily touch-typing on a QWERTY keyboard (Thinkpad X230 user here) at 120WPM. I don't really have much of a problem hitting

Unittesting desktop apps (xdg-email bug)

2015-01-08 Thread Thomas Güttler
Hi, I think this bug (attaching files to xdg-email does not work https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/simple-scan/+bug/515386 ) is annoying. Is there a way to write a unittest for this, to make this bug never appear again in Ubuntu? Regards, Thomas -- http://www.thomas-guettler.de/

Close Tab by middle click

2015-09-01 Thread Thomas Güttler
am very used to it. My new team mate (who was new to linux) asked me about this, too. Please listen to the newcomers reporting usability problems. Why do you not care? Regards, Thomas Güttler -- http://www.thomas-guettler.de/ -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com