Re: Keyboard usage on some Gnome windows not working

[Matthew Thomas <mpt myrealbox com>]

On 19 Oct, 2005, at 2:49 PM, Bill Haneman wrote:
> Matthew said:
> > In Windows 2000 and (I think) Windows XP, all access key underlines  
> > are hidden by default.  
> > <http://www.microsoft.com/enable/training/windowsxp/  
> > hideunderlines.aspx> This makes the interface less ugly, and possibly  
> > also somewhat faster for people who aren't disabled (as it  
> > discourages them from thinking that finding and typing the access key  
> > is faster than using Tab or the mouse).
>
> I am hoping there are missing <sarcasm> tags around that last comment  
> :-)
> ...

No, there aren't. <http://asktog.com/TOI/toi06KeyboardVMouse1.html>

I see there is some research showing that the keyboard is faster for  
common commands  
<http://ad-astra.ro/research/view_publication.php? 
publication_id=1508&lang=en>, but that wouldn't include access keys  
unless you were encountering particular dialogs or alerts very often.

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Matthew Paul Thomas
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