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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
- Date: 19 Mar 1996 10:24:36 GMT
- Organization: Siemens Nixdorf AG
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- Thomas Eicher (teicher@limburg.mch.sni.de) wrote:
- : 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' :-)
-
- Well, seems I RTFM'd yesterday nite. Okay, the options in the
- menu are available without the Amiga key.
- Showing the keys by underlining the letters (with the buttons)
- would still help.
-
- Try using Voodoo without any mouse at all. Only if this works
- comfortably then you've got a good interface. (Because the
- mouse interface is nearly always usable anyway...)
-
- : 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 ?
-
- They are used for _scrolling_. It would make sense to _change_ the
- current message with them, right ?
-
- : Regards, Tom.
-
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- Thomas Eicher - teicher@limburg.mch.sni.de
- My opinions need not reflect those of my employer
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