Re: Linux and audio pro

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Date: 06/03/05 

Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 05:18:40 GMT

On 2005-06-02 opaloka@REMOVECAPSyahoo.com said:
>> [2] A touch typist likes to keep his hands above the
>> "home keys": "ASDF" on the left, "JKL;" on the right.
>> While one can make nasty noises about the original
>> purpose of the QWERTY keyboard (in very olden times
>> the keys tended to jam; therefore the intent was to
>> make the touch typist type as slowly as possible :-) )
>> it's what many of us are trained on. The only
>> competing technology -- if one can call it that --
>> is the DVORAK keyboard. (I don't have comparison speeds
>> handy for the two.)
>> Either way, of course, the hands don't move much --
>> *until one has to pick up the entire hand and move
>> it over to the mouse*. This is a pain, and slows a
>> typist down; he has to locate the mouse, move it,
>> possibly click on a button, then locate the home keys
>> again on the hand that was using the mouse. [*]
>This is probably the origin of the users distaste for typing at all,
>unless she is in a 'text window' and can leave the mouse alone for
>a while. I've often thought the web service interface, where
>completing a transaction often requires shifting back and forth
>between keyboard and mouse to be quite awkward - same with many
>>word processors. For its part Windows does allow usage of the
>>ALT key. This key allows for selection of menus without having
>> to use the wired soapbar -- though it could be more
>> consistent. (It could be a lot more consistent in
>> Linux, too.)
Don't care that much, when I had a linux machine up and running before
I took a lightning hit I was running slackware with speakup, a linux
screenreader which supported my doubltalk speech card and allowed me
to read the screen.

NEwer versions of windows don't support the alt keys and the tab key
for navigation as much anymore. My bitch with double clicking and all
that is that screen access for the blind developers have had to
incorporate "double clicking" a mouse in as a function using the
numeric keypad and therefore forego such functions as being able to
have your screenreader have a reading cursor which could allow you to
look at the spelling of a word in text and even possibly (depending on
the screenreader software) spell it using the itu phonetic alphabet.

>> But it's highly naive to think that double-clicking is
>> easier than typing. Such, presumably, depends on the user.
>You don't have to know anything, and the theory is that you can
>figure it out more easily.
>> [*] The Amiga had an interesting capability, which might have
>> existed on other systems. One can press and hold down
>> the left and right Amiga keys, and the main pointer would
>> be movable via the arrow keys. It was slightly clumsy
>> but very helpful for those who didn't have a mouse handy.
>Windows has this still, I believe, marketed as an app for people
>with disabilities.
I think there they use the control key and the arrows, which is handy.
STill as screenreaders have to become more complex and update when you
upgrade apps to support them more functions that you really wanted in
your screen reader get lost. THis is why my lady's win 95 machine
which we use for desktop publishing manufacturing our own business
cards etc. will never get a net connection. I have no intention of
chasing down bugs and githing the security battle. WHen I've finished
building another linux machine it will get a dsl connection.
OTherwise this old dos box gets its dial-up connection. Ftp works
good, telnet is fine, web browser is too crude and rudimentary to be
of much use with forms frames and java *** but most of the time I
don't care. IT gets email so that I keep up with nws hurricane
predictions and weather for folks at sea and get the things I want.

I sitll plan on building another linux machine eventually, putting a
Zefiro card in it and using it for transferring audio from other media
and possibly burning a cd, but I decided that could wait, just go buy
a Masterlink instead. I'm hnot that interested in gui editing and cut
and paste performance editing.

Richard Webb,
Electric SPider Productions, New Orleans, La.
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