[ale] KDE 4.1 fun

[jim.kinney at gmail.com (Jim Kinney)]

Mac users don't/can't use a keyboard. UI design is driven by Apple gui. Thus
everyone gets a moderately crappy interface.

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Robert Reese~ <ale at sixit.com> wrote:

> > I think the designers are pushing you toward the "right-click,
> > run command" behavior. That's what I do most often now. Typing
> > two are three letters of the app usually brings up the icon I can
> > click on.
>
> What a terrible way to do it.  If I wanted to run a command from the
> right-click, then give me the option on a context menu only.  But what's
> even sillier is they have you take your hand away from the mouse and
> reorient it on the keyboard.
>
> Equally disliked is the software that makes you frequently remove your hand
> from the keyboard to do something with the mouse.  Whatever happened to the
> convention that anything the mouse can do, the keyboard can do, too?
>
> Cheers,
> Robert~
>
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