Re: Taking the Dvorak issue into our own hands. No Pun Intended.

--- In [email protected], Marco Amans <marco.amans@...> wrote:
>
> marzolian ha scritto:
> > Dvorak's keyboard up with was a definite improvement over QWERTY, and
> > I wish people had listened to him way back when.  I made a real
> > effort to use it about 13 years ago. The main reason I didn't
> > continue was because I was working at a client's office, on a machine
> > that other people would use once in a while. I wasn't allowed to
> > activate Dvorak on it.  
> 
> You can remap your keyboard to Dvorak layout using an 
> Autohotkey script with portable Autohotkey on a USB key.
> 
> This makes it very unlikely that you cannot use Dvorak on 
> any computer.

That's not the point.  This all happened before USB memory (flash drives, pen drives, thumb drives) became common place.  Or before I knew anything about AutoHotKey. Besides, I know how to activate Dvorak via Windows.

The point is, my office computer wasn't mine.  Someone else in the office might have to use my computer for some reason, and so the computer needed to stay in Qwerty mode.  I wasn't going to deactivate Dvorak any time I got up, or reactivate it when I sat back down.

Even though that problem has gone away, the Dvorak layout is still not the best option for me.

Steven