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From: ralphw@ius2.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre)
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Subject: Re: Friendly user interface?
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Date: Tue, 29-Apr-86 11:57:26 EDT
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In article <13461@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> mazlack@ernie.berkeley.edu.UUCP (Lawrence J. Mazlack) writes:
>>
>>... If more developers read the bible: the chapter on user interface
>> guidlines in Inside Mac then they would know that all commands
>>should have either menu items or labelled places to click on the screen.
>>Sure, expert users want the command keys, But please, developers, include
>>a glossary and in so far as is possible, put the commands in the menu
>>bar!
>
>The nice thing about using the option stuff is that you can do things a lot
>quicker. The stuff that I use most in Word is font changes, underlining, bolds,
>italics, etc.  If you change these a lot, going to the menu a lot is pretty
>time consuming...

The idea is that all command shortcuts should be indicated next the the
corresponding menu item, so that there are two ways to accomplish a task.
This makes a glossary unneccesary.

For example:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
@ File  					Font		Style
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Open 					%O	Geneva %G	Italic %I
  Close 				%C	Roman  %R	Bold   %B
  Flip-all-bits-and-stand-on-your-head 	%F
  etc.

It would be nice for the command equivalents were on the left hand side,
(eg %O Open ...) to make formatting menu entries easier.

It's inexcusable to provide functionality in an applications and not make it
accessible by menu items as well as command keys.

>However, I will agree that everything doable by option sequences should also
>be doable by menu - and Word does sin in this respect.

MicroSoft should know better, they were one of the earliest Mac developers.

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