Re: Bugs in the OSX version: Preferences, cut and paste, ...

Tim Berners-Lee wrote:
> 
> - Preferences:
> 
> In preferences, it is old style to have "apply" buttons.  It is  simpler 
> to just change things immediately the UI has changed, and if  necessary 
> revert them later.  To be able to change them and close the  window 
> without actually having hi "apply" or "done" is too easy.
> It is simpler for the user if the state of the switch or button or  
> field at any one time actually represents the state of the preference.
> 
> - Cut and Paste.
> 
> Write "the quick brown". Select "quick".   Cut. Paste.   Text should  be 
> the same, but reads "thequick brown",
> 
> - No "Open recent..."
> 
> - open -a /Applications/Amaya.app <filename>  does not work. Does  amaya 
> not take command line
> args or are the args in OSX different? I suspect the latter.

We started to debug this bug some times ago. There is effectively a 
difference in the way OSX version manages the args. We haven't still 
found the fix.

> - Amaya should be able to launch from a file icon or URL icon dropped  
> onto the Amaya icon.
> 

We are searching why some mac specificities are not taken into account.
Our goal is now to make an osx version as close as possible of mac 
standards.

> - In OSX  ~/.amaya is OK as a directory for preferences, but it would  
> be BETTER to have them in
> ~/Library/Application\ Support/Amaya
> and the caches under
> ~/Library/Caches/Amaya
> so that they are and are not backed up, respectively.
> 
> - It really is not obvious in WXWidget split windows that you have to  
> double-click on the red border to close.  An "x" somewhere would much  
> more normal.

Several people said the same remark. We'll use another way.

> 
> - Some Apps usefully use Comand/W to close a TAB not a window, when  
> there are  >1 tabs, and then close the window. That works for me.
> 
We currently use Cmd-W to close the window and Sfiht-Cmd-W to close a 
tab. We will switch these shrotcuts to act as in Safari or Firefox

Thanks,

Laurent Carcone - W3C

Received on Monday, 30 January 2006 11:13:24 UTC