Hi Laura, Actually, no I didn't know that "web disconnect" was in the options menu. How interesting.
You asked why I would want to move the connect and disconnect to the utilities menu. The thought originally occurred to me when I was working on the internet and became disconnected. I was surprised not to find a "connect to service" in the keyweb menu. It's just as logical to expect it in the keyweb menu as it is to expect it in the keymail menu. But, when I selected "connect to a service" in the keymail menu, I not only connected, I then checked my email and when I exited from the keymail menu I found myself back in the main menu. This was becoming like one of those old adventure games I used to play: one would wonder around a maze and see where the next turn would take them. It occurred to me that what was missing here was modularity. The "connect" was so deeply involved with the keymail system that it was hard for the user to do it with out doing an email function. That leads to no logical place to put a "disconnect" function, so you wind up putting it some arbitrarily selected place like the options menu. Why not put it somewhere where everyone can know where to find it: in the utilities menu. It's just an attempt to bring some sense of order from a system that, at times, seems to need a little more structure. Once it's tucked away in the utilities menu, you can put it in the keyweb menu, or leave it in the keyweb menu. At least, it's someplace where people can go to find it whenever they need it. Hope this explanation explains things more explicitly. <grin> Thanks, Bob > ----- Original Message ----- >From: Laura Wolk <"[EMAIL PROTECTED]"@smtp.enter.net >To: Braillenote List <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 06:33:23 -0500 (EST) >Subject: re: [Braillenote] sugestion: disccnect "connect to service" prompt >Hi Bob, >You probably already know this, but there is a quick disconnect command found >in the options menu. It only shows up when you are connected to your modem. >From the options menu, press w. If you are connected, you will hear >spoken/displayed "disconnected". >Secondly, just curious: why would you wish the connect to service to be moved >to the utilities menu? As you've pointed out, there currently is no shortcut >there. And, isn't it logical to keep it with the EMAIL functions in keymail? >Just curious. Laura >"Neither of us [Yoko and I] want to make the mistake that Gandhi and Martin >Luther King did, which is get killed one way or the other. Because people >only like dead saints, and I refuse to be a saint or a martyr." (John Lennon, >1969) >>------ original message ------ >>from: bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: [Braillenote] sugestion: disccnect "connect to service" prompt >>Hi gang, >>Here's a suggestion for the next version of keysoft (actually it's three >>suggestions). >>Firstly, take the "connect to service" prompt out of the email menu and put >>it somewhere else like the utilities menu. While you are at it, why not tell >>us how fast we are connected at? In that way, we could choose to disconnect >>and reconnect if we got connected at a slower speed the first time. >>My second suggestion is to put a "disconnect from service" option next to the >>connect to service option (see the above suggestion). If we choose to >>connect to a service, there might also be times when we want to disconnect. >>My last suggestion is to put both the file and utility menus under the task >>menu. Of all the tasks we have to do, these two would seem to be the type of >>things we would like to subtask. >>Thanks, >>Bob >>___ >>To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >>http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote >___ >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
