From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Sep 1 08:47:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA04541 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 08:47:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA04536 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 08:47:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.6/8.8.5) id KAA00888; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 10:47:13 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199709011547.KAA00888@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: Microsoft the GUI King (was Re: ATT Unix for Windows) In-Reply-To: <199709011515.LAA25718@gatekeeper.itribe.net> from Jamie Bowden at "Sep 1, 97 11:21:16 am" To: jamie@itribe.net (Jamie Bowden) Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 10:47:12 -0500 (EST) Cc: softweyr@xmission.com, peter@grendel.iaehv.nl, chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jamie Bowden said: > On Sat, 30 Aug 1997, Wes Peters wrote: > > Lot's of GUI design, and Microsoft stuff deleted. > > ONe thing to remember when designing the interface for any program, never > make me have to use my mouse to use a feature. If I can't do it without > leaving the keyboard, I probably won't. If it's important, and I can't do > it without a mouse, you just lost a customer. I have spoken to many non > CS types who hate being forced to use a mouse as well. If you want to put > all your cool features on buttons and mouse driven menus, go for it, but > make them accessable via keystroke as well. > I am a very serious computer user, developer, and HATE to use the mouse or move my hands from the keyboard in any way. If God would have meant for us to use a mouse, he would have given us three hands :-). I think that my aversion to the mouse has to do with being a touch-typist. In my case, a mouse is used as a "mode switch" alot like the control or alt keys. It entails needing to reorient my hands on the keyboard after use. -- John dyson@freebsd.org jdyson@nc.com