Yes. Keep the mistakes.

Posted Jul 18, 2008 20:44 UTC (Fri) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Yes. Keep the mistakes. by dwheeler
Parent article: Mono man accuses Mac Gtk+ fans of jeopardizing Linux desktop (the Register)

But CONSISTENCY is more important than FAMILIARITY.

Give a trained typist a Dvorak keyboard, and within a week or so they will be faster than they
were before. Make them keep switching between keyboards, and they will be slower whichever
keyboard they're using.

Far too many problems are blamed as "user error" when the user's muscle memory presses/clicks
the wrong button because in all the other stuff they use it would have been the right button.

Cheers,
Wol

Yes. Keep the mistakes.

Posted Jul 18, 2008 21:13 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Not always true. I have two different Maltron keyboards (at home and at 
work) with significantly different layouts for the non-alphanumeric keys.

It took about two weeks' adapting time, but I can shift from one to the 
other almost instantly now. There *are* muscle memory errors, but only 
when, say, I'm working from home, editing a program I normally edit at 
work, and I start using work's key layout...