[sparkie]

Yeah, it's really awkward to configure every application's keybindings to be dvorak-friendly (if possible). Every application inventing its own keybinding solution is clearly a mis-design of our operating systems, which should have some common daemon/configuration for them.

I live mostly in emacs, so it tends not to be an issue, since I reconfigure nearly every shortcut anyway (default emacs shortcuts are IMO, terrible on modern keyboards). There's extentions to configure for firefox too (because it's a pain to do manually via about:config).

The lack of ability to configure key-bindings explicitly is perhaps one of my biggest gripes with "modern" software design - which has the "do it one way only" philosophy, and forces the user to adapt to the software, rather than adapt it to their needs. Firefox for example, gets worse with every iteration - and it's not like I can revert back to using Opera, since they gimped that too by turning it into another Chrome clone.