- From: Dr Geoffrey Kantaris <egk10@cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 15:11:57 +0100
- To: "Amaya" <www-amaya@w3.org>
Can I just urge that whatever is done with shortcuts should be fully customizable by the user, and that the default (on-install) configuration should conform broadly to what users are used to from standard word processing applications such as OpenOffice? The kind of shortcuts mentioned below would be totally unfamiliar to the average user and, I would suggest, rather alienating. For example, most people are used to Esc being used for cancelling actions rather than for inserting special character codes. I have no objection to Amaya coming with specialist configurations, but a user-friendly configuration (i.e. what the majority expects) should be the default. Geoffrey ----- Original Message ----- From: "Irene Vatton" <Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr> To: <Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr> Cc: "Amaya" <www-amaya@w3.org> Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 9:33 AM Subject: Re: Improvements for faster writing style Le Mercredi 23 Mars 2005 14:13, Johann Dirry a écrit : > Hi, > The improvements in the UI of the new Amaya release are really good - > thanks a lot. > > But there are some Things to that I would like to have: > > * Simplified Shortcuts by the use of a current context, witch means that > pressing i.e. Ctrl+M should lead to MathML-Editing mode, so that pressing > "Ctrl+V Ctrl+V" creates a structure like > "<msub><msub><mi/><mi/></msub><mi/></msub>" rather than "Ctrl+M Ctrl+V > Ctrl+M Ctrl+V". Pressing again "Ctrl+M" should close the <math> Element. > The current context should be shown in the StatusBar in the kind of > "<html><body><p><math><msub>". Also it could indicatet by different cursor > colors like blue for html; red for math; green for forms; and the like > -- This will lead to a faster writing style. Your proposal seems interesting, but it completely changes the notion of shortcut. Any other opinion? > > * Provide an Escape-sequence for Special Characters. i.e. pressing "'Esc' > hellip 'Esc'" should insert …. > -- Esc is now interpreted by WX widgets. -- Irène. ----- Irène Vatton INRIA Rhône-Alpes INRIA ZIRST e-mail: Irene.Vatton@inria.fr 655 avenue de l'Europe Tel.: +33 4 76 61 53 61 Montbonnot Fax: +33 4 76 61 52 07 38334 Saint Ismier Cedex - France
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