RE: ANNOUNCE: Style Guide available for review.
- From: Paul Hepworth <phepworth s-vision com>
- To: gnome-list gnome org
- Subject: RE: ANNOUNCE: Style Guide available for review.
- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 18:38:55 -0700
> paul wrote
> > agree; in fact, Esc should generally (dare I say always?:) be bound
> to
> > the Cancel button.
>
> and earlier
> >There is no sense making the user learn the "one true way" of the
> system
> >when we can make the system learn the "one true way" of the user!
> Since
> >I've been using F3 to open and F2 to save for over ten years, whey
> >should I change to using ^O and ^S all of a sudden? Likewise
> >Shift+Insert, Shift+Delete vs. ^X & ^V. The windoze-way is typically
> a
> >good default binding (because of likely novice user familiarity), but
> as
> >we all know, the windoze way is NOT the "one true way."
>
> >In short, I urge the gnome way to be "sensible defaults coupled with
> >user-configurability" -- truly the best of both worlds!
>
> I complete agree with the this last sentence.
> Let me have a way to configure CTRL-G for 'cancel.
>
Silly me! I didn't mean to say "Esc." I meant to say
'KeyBinding("esc").'
(I can't imagine why you'd want ^G for cancel, but far be it from me to
tell you what to like!:)
> How about key-themes ? e.g. emacs-key-theme ?
>
Sure, why not? (Not that I know exactly what they are, being a vi guy.)
Paul
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