On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Baxissimo <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Feb 2, 11:50 pm, "Edward K. Ream" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > * If you must have a toolbar make it optional and keep it simple.
> >
> > Comment: Leo shows that Robin's assertion that "Toolbars require the
> > mouse" is incorrect.  Toolbar items can easily create minibuffer
> > commands.
>
> I don't get it, if you're saying you click on the toolbar item to
> start up the minibuffer command, then you have indeed used the mouse,
> and Robin is still correct.
> If you are saying the toolbar commands can be invoked without using
> the mouse, then the toolbar isn't really offering any vital service
> there other than just advertising the availability of a keyboard
> command.  In which case it's really the keyboard command you used not
> the toolbar, so Robin is still correct.   And in this case the toolbar
> is just sitting there eating up valuable screen real estate.  So
> Robin's still correct.
>
> Emacs has a toolbar too, and like everything in Emacs all the buttons
> correspond to existing keyboard commands.  If you know the commands
> then the toolbar is just a waste of space.  I think this is the point-
> of-view Robin's comment is coming from.
>
> > * have a built-in psychotherapist or be able to play towers of
> > hanoi.  ;-)
>
> These are really implemented?  And incremental search is not?  The
> priorities seem a little inverted there.  Maybe it was just trivially
> simple to get those working... hoping so at least.
>
> --bb
>
> >
>


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