On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 01:01:20AM -0400 I heard the voice of Steve Litt, and lo! it spake thus: > > A much more visually distinctive appearance of command choices, > submenu choices without defaults, and submenu choices with defaults > would be in order.
Possible. Most straightforward way would probably be a different icon for menus with defaults. > The preceding sentence could be parsed two different ways: > > 1) The flip side, which is slightly tougher, is in getting people WHO > ARE used to hitting return... > > 2) The flip side, which is slightly tougher, is in ACCLIMATIZING people > to hitting return... > > From context I suspect it's #1 but I'm not sure. I meant #2. Once they get used to opening submenus, it'll be real surprising when they try to open the menu and wind up executing something instead. They'll be in for some momentary confusion when they do that in, TwmWorkspaces, and wind up in a different workspace instead of looking at the list of windows. But they'll be *REAL* surprised and experiencing a whole different emotion when, say, they hit a menu with a default entry of f.quit... (The obvious fact that that would be a completely insane thing to do has never stopped anybody from doing similar things before. But there are plenty of non-insane default entries one might reasonably add that would still be surprising and nontrivial to back-out from.) -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | [email protected] Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.
