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Re: MIDI software?

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On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 at 00:52:10, Orlando Enrique Fiol 
<ofiol@verizon.net> wrote:
>In article <qsies0$pmg$1@news.albasani.net>, briang1@blueyonder.co.uk writes:
>> I have to say, I cannot get used to browsers with no menu bar, its such a
>>mess to use in my view.
>> I have found the new Waterfox classic and Firefox far more user friendly.
>Google Chrome and Chromium Edge both have a single vertical menu that 
>you bring
>down with the alt key like any other. Alt+F also works. Why F was 
>chosen as the
>mnemonic key is a mystery, though.

With my Chrome, pressing the Alt key on its own has no visible effect. 
At a guess, Alt-F was chosen because the File menu was (still is) the 
first menu in the vast majority of Windows software, and has been for 
many versions of Windows (though not all software, and that's always 
been so - for example the calculator doesn't have a file menu, logically 
enough). Alt-space still does something in Chrome, though - much the 
same as it does in any other software (same as clicking on top left, for 
sighted users - though most of them don't know of that menu either!).
-- 
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

Radio 4 is one of the reasons being British is good. It's not a subset of
Britain - it's almost as if Britain is a subset of Radio 4. - Stephen Fry, in
Radio Times, 7-13 June, 2003.

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MIDI software? "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2019-11-15 14:30 +0000
  Re: MIDI software? "Brian Gaff \(Sofa 2\)" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2019-11-21 18:56 +0000
    Re: MIDI software? "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2019-11-21 20:13 +0000
      Re: MIDI software? "Brian Gaff \(Sofa\)" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2019-11-22 07:55 +0000
        Re: MIDI software? "Brian Gaff \(Sofa 2\)" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2019-11-30 08:00 +0000
          Re: MIDI software? "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2019-11-30 15:44 +0000
            Re: MIDI software? "Brian Gaff \(Sofa 2\)" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2019-12-01 10:54 +0000
              Re: MIDI software? Orlando Enrique Fiol <ofiol@verizon.net> - 2020-10-28 18:18 -0400
    Re: MIDI software? "Brian Gaff \(Sofa 2\)" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2019-12-08 09:13 +0000
      Re: MIDI software? Orlando Enrique Fiol <ofiol@verizon.net> - 2020-10-28 00:52 -0400
        Re: MIDI software? "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2020-10-28 15:44 +0000
    Re: MIDI software? Orlando Enrique Fiol <ofiol@verizon.net> - 2020-10-28 18:15 -0400
  Re: MIDI software? "Arno Schuh" <arno.schuh@in-trier.de> - 2020-10-31 17:43 +0100

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