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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Left Handed
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () kde ! org>
Date:       2005-09-02 8:25:48
Message-ID: 200509021025.55304.zander () kde ! org
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On Monday 29 August 2005 12:32, Gerry Gavigan wrote:
> 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.

It is true that there are 4 types of hand-orientations.  There are people 
that are hard left, hard right and there are people that can use both 
but have a preference for left or right.
All this can be found in the approriate research papers.

What we end up with is a largely unusable desktop (or at the least a very 
bad experience) for the hard left type of people.

> 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'll talk to the accessibility guys today on this subject to see what is 
going on in this area and how to attack it at  a basic level.
But your bugreports on those issues are more then appreciated!

-- 
Thomas Zander

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