Lars Clausen wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Adrien Beau wrote: Well guys, i found in few of your posings:
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/draft_hig/user-control.html Put the User in Control Remember that computers exist to serve humans. A user should always feel in control, able to do what they want when they want. This means that modes should generally be avoided; users should be able to switch between different tasks (and specifically, different windows) at any time. Regards, Bob > > On Monday 22 April 2002 12:36, Lars Clausen wrote: > >> > >> AZERTY is evil. They require shift to do numbers. I hated > >> them the entire time I was in Rennes. > > > > Actually, putting ~#{}[]|`\^ and @ as "third class" symbols > > reachable only with the AltGr key is far worse in my opinion. > > But we're digressing, so let's bury the French keyboard here. > > Amen! Bury it far and deep:) > > I think it fair to use [] and {} in a shortcut (in particularly shortcuts > that are not that central), after all, those chars are used much in other > contexts, too. And they're dynamically reassignable, so there. > > -Lars > > P.S. ObDisgress: I can see why the 'special' chars are made third class > citizens on the Azerty (and Danish and others) keyboards, for those were > designed before compilers, where special symbols were, indeed, special. > > -- > Lars Clausen (http://shasta.cs.uiuc.edu/~lrclause)| Hårdgrim of Numenor > "I do not agree with a word that you say, but I |---------------------------- > will defend to the death your right to say it." | Where are we going, and > --Evelyn Beatrice Hall paraphrasing Voltaire | what's with the handbasket? > _______________________________________________ > Dia-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list -- Bob Marcan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Aster tel: +386 (1) 5894-329 Nade Ovcakove 1 fax: +386 (1) 5894-201 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia http://www.aster.si _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list
