On 2018-04-23 16:53, Santiago A. via Lazarus wrote: > These studies show that the most efficient is toolbar; second, keyboard > shortcuts; third, second level menu option. With the objection that > shortcuts needs a lot of practice to be better than menu.
Maybe for other programs, but for programming IDE's the rules tend to be slightly different - they are not "normal" programs, and the user of an IDE mostly have there hands on the keyboard. My personal experience is that I absolutely fly when doing editing actions, searching, debugging etc with only the keyboard. Using the mouse will slow me down considerably. I primarily use 3 different editors. I made it my mission to know their shortcuts well, and when possible configure them that the same action as the same shortcut in all three editors - that makes my life a bit easier. Saying that, designing a UI in Lazarus or Delphi is obviously faster with a mouse. ;-) But I also know of layout managers in Java where visual designers are not needed, and you can knock-up a well designed and scalable UI in no time using only code (eg: MiG Layout). Back to Lazarus - there are some dialogs that totally annoying me because they were not designed with keyboard users in mind. ie: Wrong default actions, or no default actions, wrong default focus item, incorrect tab order etc. The "Source -> Enclose in IFDEF" dialog comes to mind. The Package windows too. Some of these I have tweaked locally to suite my needs better - that goodness for open source projects. Hell, you can't even configure/customise shortcuts in Delphi IDE!!! Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
