Re: AmayaWX 9.0pre WinXP minor bug: shortcuts in menu

May I echo Dr Kantaris' suggestion. Windows or Mac menus and short-cuts  
would instantly make Amaya more accessible to me (a regular user) and many  
other people who are essentially looking for the simplest way to edit and  
don't care all that much about which is most strictly logical way to  
arrange a menu.

Could something like this be on the wish-list for version 9.1 or 9.2?


Christopher


On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 10:40:56 -0000, Dr Geoffrey Kantaris <egk10@cam.ac.uk>  
wrote:

>
> Could I suggest that the Amaya team take this opportunity to rationalize  
> the
> shortcut system, since the complex ones have these problems with  
> xwidgets?
> It's a fact that most PC (and Mac) computer users today are very used to
> Office-style shortcuts. We're trying to implement Amaya as a web editing
> solution in the Modern Languages Faculty at Cambridge University, and  
> users
> almost universally complain that Amaya is unintuitive to use -- I think  
> the
> "foreignness" of the commands that have to be typed, (Ctrl-o+Ctrl-o to  
> open
> a file, Ctrl-i+Ctrl-e for emphasis) is largely responsible for this. I  
> know
> that users or implementers can customize the keyboard file all they want,
> but for Joe Public downloading Amaya for the first time, useability  
> would be
> immensely improved if the 'standard' PC-based keymapping file followed  
> the
> most used shortcuts of, say, OpenOffice, including Ctrl-b for  
> strong(bold),
> Ctrl-i for emphasis(italics), Ctrl-o to open a file, Ctrl-a to select  
> all,
> Ctrl-w to close a window, F11 to open a dialogue for inserting CSS-style
> classes, Ctrl-k to insert a hyperlink, F7 for spelling...; and then build
> the other less used shortcuts around these. Above all, simple and  
> often-used
> commands (like emphasis and strong) really should have a simple one-press
> short-cut as standard: it is terribly slow to type Ctrl-i+Ctrl-e just to  
> get
> emphasis.
>     PS We're desperate for the Mac version here! Keep up the good work!
>         Geoffrey
>
>



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