Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 19:28:05 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org> Cc: Samuel Greear <dragonk@evilcode.net>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recent changes to libdialog are weird Message-ID: <20010917192805.B347@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <3BA60363.747A3582@mitre.org>; from jandrese@mitre.org on Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 10:06:27AM -0400 References: <95560.100 <01091707422403.00758@beware.dragonknight.net> <3BA60363.747A3582@mitre.org>
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On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 10:06:27AM -0400, Jason Andresen wrote: > Samuel Greear wrote: > > > > > The new changes suck, they've been annoying the hell out of me. > > The first time I installed, as a Windows user, I found that everything > > worked as I expected. At one point you just jumped into the menu, > > ran through it selecting things, and hit enter. It was cheeze, I liked > > it. It seems FUBAR now. > > You were definatly in the minority with this one. The first time I > ran the installer I kept hitting enter to select the items (I'd used > enter for everything else, so I didn't see why it would change), which > jumped me to some other screen with no obvious way to return. > > In fact this changing between spacebar and enter was the number one > complaint I heard from my friends who tried out FreeBSD (at least > during the install stage). It's just unnatural to people used to > mouse environments, it's like making people right click on checkboxes Agreed. FWIW I also have some problems convincing people that Quit or Cancel is really what they want .. -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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