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Re: creeping consensus

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On 2/15/2013 12:13 AM, Roedy Green wrote:
> Things I would like to see standard:

Mostly I agree with you on these points.  A little more rigor and 
conformity in designing user interfaces would be useful.

>
> Ability to enter any printable Unicode char from the keyboard with a
> US layout keyboard.

I think I'd prefer a standard way to enter Unicode with some kind of 
pop-up window.  Windows sort of has this, but it's rather clumsy to use. 
  A slicker version would be a nice addition.

>
> I would like to be able to say "set my apps up all to use function
> keys and control keys in a consistent "Harvard style", or "Princeton
> style" or if I were willing to go to some work, in the "Roedy" style.

Yes.

>
> I would like to see some standard icons for open, save, close,
> print...These icons should appear in standard order.  They should be

I'm not big on icons because they take up relatively large amounts of 
screen real estate.  If you're going to have icons there's not reason 
not to standardize them, of course.

Mostly I'd prefer a standardized set of accelerator keys -- which I 
think we have:  cntl-O, cntl-S, cntl-W, cntl-P respectively.

> I would like an "explorer" that had the concept of current source and
> target directory.

If by "explorer" you mean a file browser, then yes x 10.  The old Norton 
Commander program did this, why don't modern file browsers do it?  I can 
only conclude that Microsoft is incapable of producing anything besides 
cripple ware, and its competitors are incapable of doing anything 
besides blindly copying Microsoft.

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creeping consensus Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2013-02-15 00:13 -0800
  Re: creeping consensus markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2013-02-15 00:29 -0800
    Re: creeping consensus Donkey Hottie <donkey@fredriksson.dy.fi> - 2013-02-15 11:06 +0200
      Re: creeping consensus Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-02-24 17:46 -0500
        Re: creeping consensus Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2013-02-26 15:02 +0000
    Re: creeping consensus Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2013-02-15 05:57 -0400
    Re: creeping consensus Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2013-02-15 02:00 -0800
      Re: creeping consensus Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2013-02-15 06:21 -0400

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