nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) (02/27/91)
In article <100920299@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com> ben@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Benjamin Ellsworth) writes: > >> ... Now "Reply" is a real common function in a mail program. ... > >When the user is comfortable enough with the command set of the tool to >know immediately which command they want, keyboard accelerators should >be provided. I don't want to my hands to have to leave the keyboard. >Waving the mouse around is in my opinion the last option of a desparate >user ;-) And accelerators are provided. However I still have to put the entry somewhere on the screen. And I still want the buttons, because mousing is actually somewhat faster when you are reading mail, since otherwise you have to tab to the message list window and scroll it when you want to browse around, and tab to the mail view window and scroll it around. All that assuming you know which keys on the keyboard scroll, since most times they aren't labeled as such. But we do make heavy use of accelerators (something which several GUI independant toolkits don't allow, I might add). However that still doesn't solve the problem. -- Alfalfa Software, Inc. | Poste: The EMail for Unix nazgul@alfalfa.com | Send Anything... Anywhere 617/646-7703 (voice/fax) | info@alfalfa.com I'm not sure which upsets me more; that people are so unwilling to accept responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate everyone else's.