Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc:40336 comp.sys.mac:44717 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!apple.com!casseres From: casseres@apple.com (David Casseres) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: User interface(was Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!) Message-ID: <5876@internal.Apple.COM> Date: 19 Dec 89 21:46:32 GMT Sender: usenet@Apple.COM Organization: Apple Computer, Inc. Lines: 28 References:<6767@tank.uchicago.edu> <1989Dec17.112127.27333@me.toronto.edu> <14960@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <1989Dec17.223025.6618@me.toronto.edu> In article jacobs@cs.utah.edu (Steven R. Jacobs) writes: > I'm well aware that there are grundles of happy Mac'ers out there, but > there are also many thousands of Mac users that get tired of digging > through menus to do everything, when some simple typed commands would > perform the same operation on any system that had a little support for > typed commands... All commands with no mouse support > is almost as bad as all mouse support with no support for commands. How much support do you want? The Mac makes it very easy to implement a type-in interface -- easier, in fact, than implementing a point/click interface. > Why gripe to the application developers about a fundamental flaw in > the system? All of the serious applications that I've seen have much > better keyboard support than the Finder. Is it the Finder's lack of type-in interface that bothers you? The Finder is not the system, it's just an application. Numerous developers have written substitutes for the Finder, and some of them provide a type-in interface. I don't know if any of these are on the market, though, because in fact very few people seem to want this kind of interface on the Finder. David Casseres Exclaimer: Hey!