Re: Usability for touch typers: Keeping fingers on F and J

2014-11-20 Thread Thomas Güttler
Am 19.11.2014 um 10:07 schrieb Chow Loong Jin: I'm happily touch-typing on a QWERTY keyboard (Thinkpad X230 user here) at 120WPM. I don't really have much of a problem hitting backspace or return/enter. I'm also an Emacs user, and the only thing that really bothered me was the location of

Re: Usability for touch typers: Keeping fingers on F and J

2014-11-20 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 02:34:11PM +0100, Thomas Güttler wrote: Am 19.11.2014 um 10:07 schrieb Chow Loong Jin: I'm happily touch-typing on a QWERTY keyboard (Thinkpad X230 user here) at 120WPM. I don't really have much of a problem hitting backspace or return/enter. I'm also an Emacs

Re: Usability for touch typers: Keeping fingers on F and J

2014-11-20 Thread Thomas Güttler
Am 21.11.2014 um 05:45 schrieb Chow Loong Jin: On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 02:34:11PM +0100, Thomas Güttler wrote: Am 19.11.2014 um 10:07 schrieb Chow Loong Jin: I'm happily touch-typing on a QWERTY keyboard (Thinkpad X230 user here) at 120WPM. I don't really have much of a problem hitting

Re: Usability for touch typers: Keeping fingers on F and J

2014-11-20 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 08:24:07AM +0100, Thomas Güttler wrote: [...] I don't know the percentage of ubuntu users who have modified the CapsLock mapping. What's your guess? No idea. Probably half of the Emacs users. -- Kind regards, Loong Jin signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Usability for touch typers: Keeping fingers on F and J

2014-11-19 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 09:23:36AM +0100, Thomas Güttler wrote: I think the usability of the keyboard/mouse input could be improved a lot. touch typing the letters A-Z blind is quite easy to learn. But still you need to do yoga with you fingers for keys like Backspace or Del. Event Return

Re: Usability for touch typers: Keeping fingers on F and J

2014-11-19 Thread Thomas Güttler
Am 19.11.2014 um 10:16 schrieb Chow Loong Jin: On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 04:27:51PM +0100, Thomas Güttler wrote: [...] I have seen such keyboards before, but I don't want to leave my concave lenovo trackpoint. This way the switch between keyboard is very small. I have not seen ergonomic

Usability for touch typers: Keeping fingers on F and J

2014-11-18 Thread Thomas Güttler
Hi, I think the usability of the keyboard/mouse input could be improved a lot. touch typing the letters A-Z blind is quite easy to learn. But still you need to do yoga with you fingers for keys like Backspace or Del. Event Return is finger gym if you want to keep your pointing finger on F and

Re: Usability for touch typers: Keeping fingers on F and J

2014-11-18 Thread Martin Pitt
Hello Thomas, Thomas Güttler [2014-11-18 9:23 +0100]: Are there any touch typers out there? Don't you feel the pain when pressing Backspace? That's not ergonomic - and at least I - press this key very often. I exclusively touch-type, and indeed every move to the mouse or someplace else is a

Re: Usability for touch typers: Keeping fingers on F and J

2014-11-18 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Güttler wrote on 18/11/14 08:23: ... But still you need to do yoga with you fingers for keys like Backspace or Del. Event Return is finger gym if you want to keep your pointing finger on F and J. ... What could the current

Re: Usability for touch typers: Keeping fingers on F and J

2014-11-18 Thread Thomas Güttler
Am 18.11.2014 um 09:35 schrieb Martin Pitt: Hello Thomas, Thomas Güttler [2014-11-18 9:23 +0100]: Are there any touch typers out there? Don't you feel the pain when pressing Backspace? That's not ergonomic - and at least I - press this key very often. I exclusively touch-type, and indeed