Re: intelligent dialogs

[Dylan Griffiths <Dylan_G bigfoot com>]

"Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero" wrote:
> > Mouse buttons should be labelled:
> > [Action]  [System]  [Context]
> > After all, a keyboard is labelled, why not the mouse?
> 
> I would go for 1 2 3 or small shapes like some consoles do. That way
> person can remap it (a thing all people should learn, like they learn
> what is ctrl-letter, or why the arrow on top of intro deletes things,
> or where is the button for the lights in a car), and you do not tie it
> to an OS. Last time I checked, some people were left handed, and there
> were more than one OS.

Have you ever used an IBM keyboard?  The keys have tops which can be
detached without too much trouble, and moved around to suite the user.  I
would expect that the mouse buttons would have similar moveable labels as
well, because of such issues.

As for it being "tied" to an OS.  This label set is a part of a document
I've been working on specificing a new kind of interface, rather different
from any existing ones.  I don't expect it to be implemented any time soon,
and if it was, I doubt we'll see power enough hardware for it to be common
place until 2003 -- it does rely heavily on 3D representations of objects to
provide a rich interface :)
 
> BTW, this is going OT, no?

We're still talking about GUI standards, so no.
 

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