Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!mmm!mkr From: mkr@mmm.UUCP (MKR) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: Friendly user interface? What friendly user interface? Message-ID: <813@mmm.UUCP> Date: Fri, 2-May-86 13:13:11 EDT Article-I.D.: mmm.813 Posted: Fri May 2 13:13:11 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 7-May-86 01:32:09 EDT References: <921@watdragon.UUCP> <4512@dartvax.UUCP> <2067@cbosgd.UUCP> Reply-To: mkr@mmm.UUCP (MKR) Organization: none Lines: 15 In article <2067@cbosgd.UUCP> db@cbosgd.UUCP (D. Bird) writes: >Several people have posted comments along the lines of "yes, the shortcuts >are nice, but they should be documented (consistent with menu commands, etc.)" > >What is also needed, however, is a way to turn the shortcuts on and off. >(They should probably default to being off.) Otherwise, naive users (and >not-so-naive users) can accidentally type in a command or option key sequence, >have no idea what they did, and in some cases, are unable to undo whatever >the sequence did. > Which shortcuts on the Mac are you referring to? I can't think of any that are dangerous or even likely to happen accidently. That doesn't mean that there aren't some, though... which ones were you thinking of? --MKR