Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx05.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: markspace Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: creeping consensus Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:29:08 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 43 Message-ID: References: <50qrh8pr7m2s9g624r4mup5kevlg24t4nd@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 08:28:25 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="fba3415ba68d85d643935af2f52f0b4b"; logging-data="13414"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+MLnDmsxZnPRYGlz7SlQbT/jzwdmDLkl8=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130107 Thunderbird/17.0.2 In-Reply-To: <50qrh8pr7m2s9g624r4mup5kevlg24t4nd@4ax.com> Cancel-Lock: sha1:JV6JmbNTrXUZO7lcwQy6QCBJHY4= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:22314 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.