Desktop GUI concept

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Alejandro Imass <aimass-EzYyMjUkBrFWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org>

| On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 2:00 AM, Molly Tournquist
| <mollytournquist-ifvz4xmYPRU at public.gmane.org> wrote:

| > Dvorak is not for French. That's what Bepo is for.

| I didn't say it was for French. I said the French (as in France) use
| it because it's supposed to be better for Latin-based languages. I
| don't really know if that's true or not, all I know is I did some work
| in France and Dvorak keyboards were widely used and people there said
| it was better; some hadn't even seen a qwerty keyboard! I personally
| found it very perplexing and frustrating coming from the qwerty world.

Where we use QWERTY, French use AZERTY.  But that isn't Dvorak or
Dvorak-fr (or Bepo).  I've always (well, for 30 years) called it
AZERTY and it seems some others do too.

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