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Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 22:55:27 +0200
From: Peter Korsten <peter@grendel.IAEhv.nl>
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Subject: Re: Microsoft the GUI King (was Re: ATT Unix for Windows)
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Eric J. Schwertfeger shared with us:
> 
> To expect *every* user to use the mouse to do the same is almost as silly.
> Besides, that's what accellerator keys are for. One Alt-key to select the
> user list, page-up/page down (or even better, start typing the name), you
> get the idea. And having done stuff like that, I can tell you that if your
> GUI toolkit supports it, this kind of stuff is trivial to add.

Yep. Accelerator keys are a good idea. Every GUI supports them
nowadays.

BTW, in an earlier mail, someone asked something like "isn't VC++
hard to use due to the GUI?" and the answer is: indeed, it isn't.

Actually, you can totally customize VC++. I made my own personal
toolbar yesterday and you can also customize keystrokes. Compiling
doesn't take that long either, even when your sources files reside
on a FreeBSD server. C'mon, it isn't _that_ bad... :)

Admitted, the settings menu for building your project is like
applying for a car in pre-Gorbachov Russia, but let he who knows
all GCC options by heart step forward and announce himself.

> I can even do just about everything I ever need to do on Win95
> without a mouse.

REPEAT
  <Alt-F4>
UNTIL screen gets gray
<Enter>

<Ctrl-Alt-Delete> <Tab> <Enter> works as well. :)

- Peter