On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 13:13, Alan Horkan wrote: > Any particular things in mind?
Well, the first thing is in bug 4144. > I think maybe someone (dom?) has already switched [Cancel][ OK ] button > order in the Gnome builds to match the HIG. This isn't the case with the cvs from yesterday, afaict. > > I think that Abiword should continue to follow MSWord first and the HIG > second. > Considering the very wise provision in Abiword for differnt keybindings > schemes it might be wise to start a Gnome keybinding scheme. > > For example the HIG recommends that Undo be Ctrl+Z and the Redo be > Ctrl+Shift+Z. > I agree that for a newbie, a neophyte, a clean slate, a > beginner that that it is more consistant to use the shifted and unshifted > versions of the same letter for related tasks. > But i also think that a seperate keybinding scheme should be started and > kept as much as possible the same as MSWord (ill be trying to keep it like > MSWord97 so i hope Microsoft resisted changing anything). > Personally, I feel that we should follow the GNOME HIG on GNOME, and the Microsoft example (or their HIG) on windows. Similarly, the Aqua HIG on the mac. I think consistency with the other applications is more important than consistency across platforms. People using AbiWord on more than one OS will already be dealing with substantial interface differences. > Mostly abiword is very good about avoiding too many submenus and having > lots of keybindings for things (or it least it used to be, there are so > many newer feature that could do with keybindings, i really could do with > a shortcut for Insert Hyperlink). > Yes, AbiWord does quite well on a number of these things. But we need to be uniformly good, and consistent. > I am happy enough to bring up HIG issues if and when i notice them. If > you would prefer i keep my comments in bugzilla rather than on the mailing > list i can do that. Either the list of bugzilla is fine. -- sam th <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
