RE: Metaproposal: Default to standard

["Wesley Felter" <wesf cs utexas edu>]

> For example, if the GNOME Style Guide was to neglect to use the Macintosh
> systems for text selection(single click = move cursor, double
> click = select
> word, triple click = select sentence, etc.), and a GNOME programmer needed
> to know what to implement, he or she should implement what the users
> expects:  Macintosh style text selection.

As a Mac user, that sounds pretty good to me. :-)

One thing that you may want to pay close attention to is keyboard navigation
in text. For example, the arrow keys act differently in MacOS and Windows,
because MacOS does not assume the presence of home and end keys on the
user's keyboard. I personally would rather learn slightly more complex
semantics for a smaller number of keys than have to use all 101 keys on my
keyboard.

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