Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site amdahl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!decwrl!sun!amdahl!howard From: howard@amdahl.UUCP (Howard C. Simonson) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: RFC: Command key bindings Message-ID: <1925@amdahl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 04:47:17 EDT Article-I.D.: amdahl.1925 Posted: Mon Aug 19 04:47:17 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 01:58:51 EDT References: <1046@sdcsvax.UUCP> Reply-To: howard@amdahl.UUCP (Howard C. Simonson) Organization: Amdahl Corp, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 14 Keywords: keyboard equivalents, proposed standard Summary: Joel, with all due respect to the work you did in researching current command key equivalents, remember that the main word in User Interface is USER. When I get serious about running an application, one of the first things I do is get out my trusty ResEdit and set the control keys the way *I* want them. And sometimes I don't stop there. Where dialogs show up is fair game. Icons are definitely an item to enhance. And a lot can be done with string resources. The bottom line; where control A is initially means very little, I will eventually put it where I want it. -- Time for a new catchy phrase in my Howard C. Simonson .signature, now if I could only ...{dragon,hplabs,ihnp4,nsc}!amdahl!howard think of one... [ Opinion? What opinion. I think you have the wrong guy... ]