On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 12:02:03 -0700 "Devin Teske" <dte...@vicor.com> wrote:
> I was thinking that what we ought to do is support *both* numbers > *and* letters. Sounds good to me. > I envision the menuitem numbers remaining unchanged (1-7), allowing > those familiar with the numbers to use them. > > However, as for the letters, I'm thinking that we *BOLD* the mnemonic > in the menuitem. For example (showing bolded items between asterisks): > > 1. Boot *[ENTER]* > 2. *A*CPI Support: Enabled > 3. Boot Safe Mode: NO > 4. Boot *S*ingle User: NO > 5. Boot *V*erbose: NO > 6. *Esc*ape to loader prompt > 7. *R*eboot > > This should indicate to the user, for example if they see that the > "V" in "Verbose" is bolded, that they can press that key to activate > that menuitem. Presented like this a naive first interpretion could be that the letters have to be entered as upper-case. I do not think someone wants to press shift there... Having the characters in bold but the numbers not could also let someone think that only the characters matter. Having a text which tells that the numbers and lower-case characters work for chosing something, may be a solution here. Another solution is maybe 1/[ENTER]. Boot 2/a. ACPI Support... ... but I have to admit that the second solution is ugly. A third solution could be to have the numbers and the characters in bold. Bye, Alexander. -- http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137 _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
