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- From: teicher@limburg.mch.sni.de (Thomas Eicher)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking,comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: Email reader
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- Date: 18 Mar 1996 07:37:15 GMT
- Organization: Siemens Nixdorf AG
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- Osma Ahvenlampi (oahvenla@hyppynaru.cs.hut.fi) wrote:
- : In article <4i38jn$h75@horus.mch.sni.de> teicher@limburg.mch.sni.de (Thomas Eicher) writes:
- : >Voodoo looks great but sure needs a lot of work with the User
- : >Interface (not GUI, hint: easy *and fast* control via keyboard)
-
- Oh, the author himself :-)
-
- : Well, seeing that Amiga has a windowing system as is designed to use a
- : mouse, Voodoo was designed to work best in a mouse/keyboard mix. What
-
- There's nothing wrong with this approach, but as you get more and
- more email, and use the reader longer, one will eventually want
- to use the reader withzout using the mouse at all.
- I had been using ZPoint for reading Zconnect mail. It has a beautiful
- GUI (IMHO) - which I used at first - but after some months,
- I read all my mail without touching a mouse. Simply because it's
- faster and because I don't have to switch between mouse and keyboard all
- the time. (Need the keyboard anyway...)
-
- : is your problem with this approach? I think it's a fast enough
- : interface, myself.
-
- Not really the speed (depends on your RAM and processor, after all),
- but the handling.
-
- : The slowest part of Voodoo is the same thing that makes it so
- : flexible, the datatypes, which unfortunately require me to use a lot
- : of temporary files instead of feeding the data through pipes or memory
- : buffers.
-
- I am very content with the datatype thing, it's great as it is.
-
- But I don't see why I have to press the Amiga key for options like
- Delete _when there is no funktion assigned to the 'D' key alone_.
- And why there are Functions that aren't accessible via keyboard at all.
- See, in a really good GUI, every Button has one letter underlined,
- which means 'press this and you don't need the mouse' :-)
- Perhaps I'm dumb or something, but isn't it possible to to scroll
- through the message list via keys ? You got both the cursor keys (okay
- for the message) and the numpad arrows. Why not use em for the
- message list ?
-
- Another thing: I think the message list is always too small. Is
- there a way to configure that ?
-
- A word about the header part (which I often look at). Disregarding
- the fact that IMHO you have to 'draw' the mouse in the opposite
- direction than would be logical, it still should get a
- scrollbar woth arrows...
-
- Does this make any sense to you ?
-
- This are just the things from the top of my head. If you really
- want to listen to my suggestions, I'd check em at home and phrase
- them more clearly.
-
- Regards, Tom.
-
- --
- Thomas Eicher - teicher@limburg.mch.sni.de
- My opinions need not reflect those of my employer
- Looks good on the outside but Intel inside
-