And I don’t mean with a Zissou-style Casio. Three staunch QWERTY keyboard opponents are now so taken with the DVORAK system that they have started a ‘zine in its honor.
As one of the comments from the related /. post states, “Dvorak’s old hat man! It’s so 1990s.” The comment-leaver goes on to advocate a Gentoo-inspired keyboard layout which is never static and optimizes itself based on the application in use. For example, “because I have to type O a lot, the I is right there where the D is in a QWERTY keyboard. The Q, on the other hand, is assigned to F2, because I rarely need it.”
An app-specific keyboard layout is a pretty useful concept if it really exists and works for this person. Considering that I don’t want to be the proud wearer of semi-permanent wrist braces by my retirement age, this may be another reason to work on that Linux partition.
Incidentally, on this day in 1822, Charles Babbage performed a show-and-tell of the rediscovered difference engine for the Royal Astronomical Society.
