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Re: Tab bar
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David De La Harpe Golden |
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Re: Tab bar |
Date: |
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 03:50:55 +0100 |
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Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
> Thanks David.
>
> I can't understand this. Why are they fighting a (rather) well
> established standard on w32 instead of using it to their favor to get
> new users?
>
Not sure you can take for granted that developers - and users - of other
desktop guis (or even w32) are as familiar with w32 as you might be. :-)
I myself have relatively seldom used w32 (amiga->gnu/linux in 1990s...),
and of w32 users I know, most aren't at a skill level where they'd use
many keyboard shortcuts to navigate... So, I had no idea C-TAB
did that on windows, and on gnu/linux I'm used to C-PgUp/Dn - turns out
I've been missing out, Tk notebooks use C-TAB, I just didn't discover
that until now.
Anyway, you can't be significantly better than w32 by just imitating
w32. :-) I'd say it's way more important that the shortcuts are vaguely
consistent intra-platform than inter-platform - mac shortcuts
quite often differ from w32 too...
... of course, they're _not_ always consistent intra-platform on
gnu/linux X11 desktops, but within a single toolkit/desktop-environment
application family you've some hope.
- Re: Tab bar, (continued)
- Re: Tab bar, Stefan Monnier, 2008/04/09
- Re: Tab bar, Andrew W. Nosenko, 2008/04/08
- Re: Tab bar, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/04/08
- Re: Tab bar, Paul R, 2008/04/08
- Re: Tab bar, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/04/08
- Re: Tab bar, Paul R, 2008/04/08
- Re: Tab bar, Andrew W. Nosenko, 2008/04/08
- Re: Tab bar, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/04/08
- Re: Tab bar, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/04/08
- Re: Tab bar, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/04/08
- Re: Tab bar,
David De La Harpe Golden <=
- Re: Tab bar, Juri Linkov, 2008/04/09
- Re: Tab bar, Jason Rumney, 2008/04/09
- Re: Tab bar, Richard Stallman, 2008/04/09
- Re: Tab bar, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/04/09
- Re: Tab bar, Juri Linkov, 2008/04/08
- Re: Tab bar, Andreas Schwab, 2008/04/09
- Re: Tab bar, Juri Linkov, 2008/04/09
- Re: Tab bar, Ehud Karni, 2008/04/08
- RE: Tab bar, Drew Adams, 2008/04/07
- Re: Tab bar, Stefan Monnier, 2008/04/07