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- Subject: Re: MAUS
- Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 10:51:07 +1000
- From: Warwick Allison <warwick@cs.uq.oz.au>
- Precedence: bulk
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- In message <Pine.3.87.9405301921.A18425-0100000@undergrad>, you wrote:
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- >What I'm suggesting is that Ctrl-A be REMOVED from the standard.
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- There is a user-interface design rule which states (more-or-less):
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- The consequences of a user action should be proportional
- to the effort the user has made to cause the actions.
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- In the context of ^A, this means:
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- - It would be better to allow the user to drag an area over
- all objects (if that is meaningful to the app).
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- - If actions can be UNDOne, the consequences are immaterial,
- and ^A may select all.
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- Warwick
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