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That's nothing to do with the keyboard and everything to do with bad UI. I could just as easily come up with a poorly thought out rant about how my options pan
by orib 18y ago
That's nothing to do with the keyboard and everything to do with bad UI.
I could just as easily come up with a poorly thought out rant about how my options panel moves from "tools->options" on Windows to "edit->preferences" on Linux, how tab close buttons are placed wherever the user feels like, how tooltips are haphazardly added to an app, how sometimes the close button exits the app, other times it minimizes to the system tray, etc.
A badly designed user interface sucks. There are lots of them out there.
- maxklein 18y agoSo which of the examples above (with the exit keystroke) is well designed, and which is not?
- orib 18y ago<rhetorical question> So which of the tab button locations is well designed, and which is not? </rhetorical question> It doesn't matter which one is used, so long as the application sticks to the platform conventions, and for the actions that don't have platform conventions, picks bindings that don't need you to be a finger contortionist. It doesn't matter if the 'ok' button is to the left or right of the cancel button, but if a UI designer swaps them around relative to what the platform normally does, he's just designed the UI poorly. If 'q' exits a command line app normally, but the developer makes 'esc' exit his app, then you just made a poorly designed UI.