Part of the territory. Apple "knows better than you", thus so do its fanboys.
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 10:20 PM, Steve Mills <smi...@makemusic.com> wrote: > On May 6, 2013, at 16:58:10, gweston <gwes...@mac.com> wrote: > >> In light of the great opportunity for user confusion - because a little >> rectangle around the number is hardly a "clear" indicator - and the reality >> that many users do not have a number pad, I think the solution I'd recommend >> is to rethink the choice of key equivalents so as to obviate the problem. > > So a rounded rect around a number is not a clear indictor that it's a > different character? People have been able to clearly see the difference > between í, ì, and i for hundreds of years, so that's a pretty lame excuse. > I've never been confused seeing these numpad glyphs in good ol' Carbon menus. > >> That said, if you insist on going down this path, it might work to include >> NSNumericPadKeyMask in the key equivalent mask for the item. > > This only affects the key used to trigger it, not the appearance of the glyph > in the menu item. > >> But seriously: Think about how much you want to annoy notebook users first. > > OK, we'll annoy them by taking away key equivs they've been used to using in > our app for the past umpteen years. > > Why is it that people on these lists prefer giving their opinions instead of > technical knowledge? > > -- > Steve Mills > office: 952-818-3871 > home: 952-401-6255 > cell: 612-803-6157 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/sbdegutis%40gmail.com > > This email sent to sbdegu...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
