Re: intelligent dialogs

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"Michael T. Babcock" wrote:
> 
> 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.

Yes, the lack of keyboard support is one of the most annoying thinks in
GNOME. But gnumeric
seems to have a lot of them, so its possible in GNOME. (We just need to
encourage the use!)
> 
> 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).
>
Yes, system-wide shortcut are nice especially for stock type
buttons(Apply, Save, Don't save, Cancel).


 
> ----- 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.
>

   Martin