Re: Bug#192305: "q to end, b for begin" ambiguous
On Mon, 12 May 2003, Geert Stappers wrote:
> This started with
> |
> | This could almost be a wishlist item, re-prioritize if desired. I hope you
> | don't feel this is too much of a nitpicking issue.
> |
> | "q to end, b for begin" I feel is ambiguous and may mislead people.
> | E.g.'s, someone wants to go to the end of the list hitting q, someone
> | finished selecting wanting to "begin" the action on their selected
> | items...
> |
> |
>
> And we are talking about a program that an user will only use once.
> (no need to be the ultimate userfriendly program)
> Please asume that the user can read. On the screen is the information
In my experience that is not a good assumption. How many times have you
explained something only to find your explanation wasn't read, or wasn't
understood? I found it very disillusioning when I first went into
business, and discovered people asking questions that were clearly
answered in the letter they were replying to;-((.
> he/she needs ("q to end, b for begin"). There is no need for using
> functions keys, nor there is a need for pressing CTRL-Whatever.
>
> Keep the 'q' and 'b' (or whatever) in "q to end, b for begin"
> because they are on all keyboards. (not all keyboards have functionkeys)
God UI design requires consistency. I recall when the Lisa (predecessor
to the Mac) was released. "Everything operates the same way, " Apple
said. "How silly," I thought, "You can't operate a spreadsheet the same
way you use a wordprocessor." That's true, of course, but now re
understand there are common functions to both, and to may others, at to
the extent they do those common things the same way they make the
software easy to use.
Exceptions are bad.
I've said my piece, and thanks for listening. I've had a long time to
think over the matter, I've read advice from various sources -
principally IBM because that's where my career took me, and I've done a
bit of UI design of my own.
I want Debian to be the best it can be, if only because I now use it.
I'm prepared to help a little.
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Cheers
John Summerfield
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