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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Left Handed
From:       Gerry Gavigan <gerryg () uklinux ! net>
Date:       2005-08-29 10:32:08
Message-ID: 200508291132.09092.gerryg () uklinux ! net
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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.
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