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- From: grub@bbs.draco.bison.mb.ca (Gordon Grieder)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
- Subject: Re: Interface disimprovement: A simple no would suffice
- Message-ID: <Xu13XB3w165w@bbs.draco.bison.mb.ca>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:12:08 GMT
- References: <antjcb.728085176@gsusgi1.gsu.edu>
- Sender: bbs@draco.bison.mb.ca (BBS User)
- Organization: The Draco Unix System [BBS]
- Lines: 31
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- antjcb@gsusgi2.gsu.edu (J.C.Burns) writes:
-
- >
- > I'm annoyed. Darn annoyed. First one upgrade, then another after another has
- > the simple, clear, 'Yes/No/Cancel.' So at first I had a special Quickey
- > for just those buttons...but then I discovered that SOME developers use
- > 'Don't Save' (the S capitalized), some use the smart quote apostrophe...as
- > a result I have about six Quickeys that do one function--tell the Mac
- > that NO, I do not want to save anything. Wouldn't a simple 'No' have
- > sufficed? This is one place where the Apple User interface gurus have
- > overthought this one, big time. Just say 'No'!
- >
- > --jcburns
-
- Try the ShareWare app called ESCapade. It lets you command-(letter) the first
- letter of the buttons to 'click' them. It's a good program. (geez, I
- better send in the shareware fee...).
- You can also TAB from button to button. You're hands rarely leave the
- keyboard.
-
- Hope this helps!
-
- -gord
-
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- |grub@bbs.draco.bison.mb.ca :"...and I spake unto the prophet, 'Oh wise one, |
- | (Gordon Grieder) :show me the way that I might burden my computer |
- | in Winnipeg, MB, Canada :with the loads of twenty thousand camels!' and |
- | (drinking his beer) :there was Windows..." ---Grub 01:22:93 |
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