Re: Review of Keybindings [Re: Dia's user interface]

[Bob Marcan <bob marcan aster si>]

Lars Clausen wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Adrien Beau wrote:
Well guys, i found in few of your posings:

http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/draft_hig/user-control.html

Put the User in Control

Remember that computers exist to serve humans. A user should always feel
in control, able to do what they want when they want.
This means that modes should generally be avoided; users should be able
to switch between different tasks (and specifically, different
windows) at any time.

Regards, Bob



> > On Monday 22 April 2002 12:36, Lars Clausen wrote:
> >>
> >> AZERTY is evil.  They require shift to do numbers.  I hated
> >> them the entire time I was in Rennes.
> >
> > Actually, putting ~#{}[]|`\^ and @ as "third class" symbols
> > reachable only with the AltGr key is far worse in my opinion.
> > But we're digressing, so let's bury the French keyboard here.
> 
> Amen!  Bury it far and deep:)
> 
> I think it fair to use [] and {} in a shortcut (in particularly shortcuts
> that are not that central), after all, those chars are used much in other
> contexts, too.  And they're dynamically reassignable, so there.
> 
> -Lars
> 
> P.S. ObDisgress:  I can see why the 'special' chars are made third class
> citizens on the Azerty (and Danish and others) keyboards, for those were
> designed before compilers, where special symbols were, indeed, special.
> 
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