On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 22:19 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 06/15/2011 09:52 PM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > > I realize that they are based on > > character frequency in English, > > No. They were arranged that way to minimize the possibility of keyboard > jams in early manual typewriters. The way that was done was to separate as much as possible letters that tend to group together in English, thus slowing down the typist. That's also why the vowels are mostly on the left hand, which is harder for most people. IOW the layout was designed to be as inefficient as possible :-) The DvorÃk keyboard tries to go the opposite way. It's available in most systems including Linux by just changing the keyboard map, though it'll drive you crazy if you don't move the keycaps around to match, or use some kind of overlay. poc -- 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
