Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!indri!lll-winken!uunet!brunix!doorknob!wsd From: wsd@cs.brown.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Various comments/questions/suggestions Message-ID: Date: 13 May 89 18:13:49 GMT References: <238@quartz.atexnet.UUCP> Sender: news@brunix.UUCP Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science Lines: 51 In-reply-to: rose@atexnet.UUCP's message of 12 May 89 20:31:32 GMT In article <238@quartz.atexnet.UUCP> rose@atexnet.UUCP (Robert Rose) writes: GENERAL: 1)Click to type vs. mouse position focus (ala Sun). I want a choice! Part of the NeXT interface, as on the Mac, is the notion that moving the mouse does nothing. Clicking performs actions. It is very important to be completely consistent. 2)User settable keybindings. I want to be able to make everything answer to emacs commands (as best as possible). I'll do the work if applications let the keys be rebound. Even X let's you do that! What do you mean? As far as I know (which isn't much), X let's you globally redefine keys, but how does one set which keys do what in different applications? If you want everything to look like emacs, then use emacs for everything (I do!). 3) CONSISTANCY!! This is VERY important! You've done a good job mostly, (command x,c,v are the same everywhere), but Define is c-d usually, in Edit c-d is something else (Find Previous), in somethings you have Yes, consistancy is critical, but application specific keystrokes cannot be standardized. There is a fuzzy boundary between commands that all NeXT apps will support and should therefore be standard, and commands which most apps will support and should maybe be standard. NeXT made these decisions, perhaps some more standards will evolve (as they did on the mac). FONTS: Any word yet on getting some more fonts? ... yes, more fonts is always better. Many 'beta' applications fry PS when you try to print (FrameMake, sometimes ... what do you mean "PS"? My personal wish: A DPS implementation that performs anti-aliasing, especially of fonts. With that beautiful gray-scale screen and outline fonts, you have the perfect opportunity. It is sooo easy to generate the bitmaps for the fonts at high resolution and filter them down. Then drawing (just a blit) to the screen is just as fast, things just look twice as good. - - - - - - - - - - Scott Draves | Space... The Final Frontier wsd@cs.brown.edu | uunet!brunix!wsd wsd@browncs.bitnet Box 2555 Brown U Prov RI 02912