Re: intelligent dialogs

["Michael T. Babcock" <mbabcock fibrespeed net>]

I heavily agree.  I'm very sick of prefering Windows over Gnome because of
keyboard shortcuts.  I can easily tab through any dialog and use ENTER for
OK or ESC for Cancel as well as Ctrl-TAB to go through actual tabs on tabbed
dialogs.

I don't necessarily think that Windows-style dialogs themselves are good (I
find them overly complex for no reason), but that's the previous discussion.
I do think that shrotcuts need to be done and established on a system-wide
basis (so that other keyboard types can map different keys to default
shortcuts -- like keyboards with a HELP key).

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dylan Griffiths" <Dylan_G@bigfoot.com>


> gavin hurley wrote:
> Quick note on one thing they HAVEN'T been doing that all dialogs on the MS
> side DO do:
>
> Keyboard shortcuts!
>
> Not very many days go by when I curse the Gnome dialogs for not letting me
> type Y N C (or esc).  Perhaps, in addition to making the dialog buttons
> self-explanitory, we should allow the definition of one letter keyboard
> shortcuts (perhaps by prefixing a letter with the amphersand) so that
people
> don't need to go and use their mice to get things done.