On 15 Jun 2011 at 22:52, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx From: Petrus de Calguarium <pgueckel@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Special Characters Date sent: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 22:52:05 -0600 Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <mailto:users- request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe> <mailto:users- request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=subscribe> > Tim wrote: > > > Ever more, the need for the standard QWERTY keyboard (and its ilk) to be > > abandoned has increased. It's inadequate for anything more than primary > > school beginner's English. > > I've always wanted a keyboard that has the letters arranged in order. It > makes no sense for me, and likely 95% of other computer users, to have querty > or other unnatural key arrangements. I realize that they are based on > character frequency in English, which serve only stenographers who: > Dvoark keyboard was designed for most keys used. The QWERTY was designed to not jam as much with the old mechanical typewriters. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_Simplified_Keyboard > type with all 10 fingers, instead of picking with 2-3 fingers, like most > people do; and > > write in only one language > > Your suggestion of having extra keys for diactical and punctuation marks and > symbols is definitely a good one. It would be difficult to standardize all of > this to accommodate all languages, but to standardize it for all languages > that use the Roman alphabet and Arabic numerals, like most European languages > do, should not be that difficult. I wish manufacturers would put some thought > into this. > > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:msetzerii@xxxxxxxxx http://www.guam.net/home/mikes Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original) Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes (Total Hours: 287,489) BOINC@HOME CREDITS SETI 10885800.113634 | EINSTEIN 6027290.210851 ROSETTA 3252689.139248 | ABC 6355184.399625 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
