Thoughts about Unity and some ideas for improvement

[Steve Magoun]

On 04/20/2011 05:20 PM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote:
> It'd be interesting to know how left-handed people feel about Unity.
> It's very dominated by super-num, super-w, super-s, super-a, super-t,
> etc. This is very nice for right-handed people, since you'd usually
> use the right hand for the mouse. But left-handed people would
> probably prefer to use the left hand for the mouse, forcing them to
> move between the mouse and keyboard fairly often.
>
> This is another good reason to use the alt-key in super-w and super-s,
> etc, since that would reduce the necessity of using the mouse so you
> don't have to move your hands as often.

I'm left-handed, and I find the accelerator keys in Unity quite handy for 
use on my laptop w/ trackpad since I can operate both the accelerators and 
trackpad with my dominant hand. I'm pretty used to similar keystrokes for 
other operations anyway (Ctrl-W, Ctrl-Q, Ctrl-A, Ctrl-S, Ctrl-C...). Even 
when I'm using an external mouse (which I do with my left hand) it's not 
that onerous; other applications already force me to move my hands around.


Steve