Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder2.enfer-du-nord.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Gregory Ewing Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Keyboard Layout: Dvorak vs Colemak: is it Worthwhile to Improve the Dvorak Layout? Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:45:27 +1200 Lines: 17 Message-ID: <95nsppFirfU1@mid.individual.net> References: <355e201c-437c-4944-9ad0-ae401df02651@22g2000prx.googlegroups.com> <4f4bv6hn40jsgpecuelejc66n7rkhv17fj@4ax.com> <55f6d32d-4451-4547-a39d-634b69179236@d26g2000prn.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net sKmgsvkvaNYQSQZZeQ4B+wOFd6g1SzeaSsoJ9sEL2+mwXbNoHl Cancel-Lock: sha1:VgvRr2lEG7r9R5AZ7mX4Tu06weo= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (Macintosh/20050711) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:7579 Chris Angelico wrote: > And did any of the studies take into account the fact that a lot of > computer users - in all but the purest data entry tasks - will use a > mouse as well as a keyboard? What I think's really stupid is designing keyboards with two big blocks of keys between the alphabetic keys and the mouse. Back when standard-grade keyboards didn't usually have a built-in numeric keypad, it was much easier to move one's right hand back and forth between the keyboard and mouse. Nowadays I find myself perpetually prone to off-by-one errors when moving back to the keyboard. :-( -- Greg