Re: Showing numpad key equivs in menu items
Re: Showing numpad key equivs in menu items
- Subject: Re: Showing numpad key equivs in menu items
- From: Steven Degutis <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 06 May 2013 22:44:02 -0500
Part of the territory. Apple "knows better than you", thus so do its fanboys.
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 10:20 PM, Steve Mills <email@hidden> wrote:
> On May 6, 2013, at 16:58:10, gweston <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> In light of the great opportunity for user confusion - because a little rectangle around the number is hardly a "clear" indicator - and the reality that many users do not have a number pad, I think the solution I'd recommend is to rethink the choice of key equivalents so as to obviate the problem.
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> So a rounded rect around a number is not a clear indictor that it's a different character? People have been able to clearly see the difference between í, ì, and i for hundreds of years, so that's a pretty lame excuse. I've never been confused seeing these numpad glyphs in good ol' Carbon menus.
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>> That said, if you insist on going down this path, it might work to include NSNumericPadKeyMask in the key equivalent mask for the item.
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> This only affects the key used to trigger it, not the appearance of the glyph in the menu item.
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>> But seriously: Think about how much you want to annoy notebook users first.
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> OK, we'll annoy them by taking away key equivs they've been used to using in our app for the past umpteen years.
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> Why is it that people on these lists prefer giving their opinions instead of technical knowledge?
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