Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 07:42:24 -0600 From: Samuel Greear <dragonk@evilcode.net> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Recent changes to libdialog are weird Message-ID: <01091707422403.00758@beware.dragonknight.net> In-Reply-To: <95560.100 References: <95560.100
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On Monday 17 September 2001 05:44 am, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > Recently, libdialog's use of tab, space and enter seems to have changed. > Now, space and enter mean the same thing. Before, enter was a > context-insensitive short-cut to the currently selected dialogue > "submit" button. > > What many folks may not realize is that the new behaviour, while "safer" > than what we had before, makes libdialog behave differently from at > least Motif, Windows, JavaAWT, JavaSwing. > > So what we have now is a libdialog that protects the finger-happy, while > confounding those who expect "pretty standard behaviour". > > I reckon if sysinstall needs to be weird, sysinstall should use its own > weird version of libdialog and leave the distributed libdialog alone. > > Ciao, > Sheldon. 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. -- Samuel J. Greear <dragonk@evilcode.net> Developer - GetMegabits, Inc. http://www.itmom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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