Allegedly, on or about 02 January 2014, Ranjan Maitra sent: > And a minor irritant: the design of the Home, PgUp, PgDn, End Buttons > (with the arrow keys, but using the Fn button which is on the other -- > left -- end of the keyboard) is ludicrous. While I agree that having to do key combinations for those functions is awful, it is sensible for the modifier key to be on the other side. If you learn to type properly, you use both hands for two-key-combination presses. e.g. On a qwerty keyboard, you type capital S by pressing the right-hand shift key with your right-hand little finger, and the S key with your left hand. Key combinations are really not meant to be single-handed, and some of them are horrible contortions to attempt. As a hint to non-typists, any time you find it awkward to type in some two/three key combination, try using both hands. Considering the number of non-touch-typists that use computers, though, it has amazed me that other keyboard layouts haven't managed to get more attention, or newer less weird designs have cropped up. Going back in time, newspapers were printed out with Linotype machines that had a keyboard designed to be typed on using just one hand. And I've seen them used, on a real newspaper press, somewhere around the 1970s/1980s. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
