From kde-usability Mon Aug 29 10:32:08 2005 From: Gerry Gavigan Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 10:32:08 +0000 To: kde-usability Subject: Re: Left Handed Message-Id: <200508291132.09092.gerryg () uklinux ! net> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-usability&m=112531156431609 I have heard the "skilled hand" argument before - I must confess usually by right handers wondering why I play the guitar the wrong way round. Of course when I point out them that their logic is tautologous - that they too should play the guitar the other way round, they tend to look blankly at me. More seriously, though, I have informally observed that there is a spectrum of handedness and I am definitely hard left (apolitically speaking). Perhaps there are not many of us hard lefties but simple things such as making kettles and irons non-handed have made my life much less clumsy. As I said I would, I've gone on to bugs as a wish list item. I'd really be interested in helping create a lefthanded KDE option. I can contribute hard work but not much useful current coding experience - but will happily undertake research, testing, documentation, "junior jobs", stuff. Is there a coder out there interested in this and what preliminary actions might they require from someone like me? On Monday 29 August 2005 09:36, Mikolaj Machowski wrote: > Dnia niedziela, 28 sierpnia 2005 10:42, Gerry Gavigan napisał: > > Thank you for replying. > > > > On "--reverse option" thank you. I thought there would be something > > based on left to right languages. I'll explore how it hangs together > > and I'll approach the wish list on bugs.kde.org to get left handed > > included as a configure option. > > > > I've met other left handers (in the real world too) who can adapt, > > obviously I do adapt. But, for example, despite having been alive for > > quite a while now, give me a row of ticket barriers and something else > > on my mind and I will instinctively put my ticket in the left hand slot > > and open the barrier for the person to my left. > > I do exactly reverse :) Prefer to use right hand for simple, automatic > tasks to keep more skilled hand free. > > m. _______________________________________________ kde-usability mailing list kde-usability@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability