On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 15:36:57 -0700 begin "Condon Thomas A KPWA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed forth:
> > > -----Original Message----- > > From: David A. Bandel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > I've been logging into UNIX boxes for over 15 years. It's > > always been: > > username<Enter> > > password<Enter> > > So, you meant the "command line" interface, instead of the "GUI" > interface. Well of course, that is Username<enter>Password<enter>, > but it also requires strict command line activities. When you said it > was a pop-up from a browser window I thought we were talking GUI. I _am_ talking GUI. As I said, Netscape 4.x has the correct (for me) behavior. Why should a form that requires two inputs submit after one? It requires a username then it requires a password, then, and only then, should it submit a form. It should not submit if the active box is username, only if the active box is password. Again, Netscape 4.x exhibits exactly this behavior (is there a non-GUI Netscape)? lynx, links, and others also do the right thing moving from line to line via <Enter>. > > > When you log into your box (VT or XDM/KDM/GDM/WDM), after you > > enter your > > username do you really hit <Tab>???????????????????? And it > > works????????????????????? > > If I'm logging into the X system, which I usually am, it works just > fine. I wouldn't use <tab> at a command line prompt, though. OK, I > don't do it on purpose. Sometimes I do it out of habit... What works? I've logged into systems using xdm since before 1989. Hitting the <Tab> key would never have occurred to me, GUI or command line. > > > Anyway, the question was, how to fix the configuration, not > > that I'm old > > and futzed. > > The problem is that if you use <enter> to switch from data-entry box to > data-entry box within the form then you must use something else to > submit the filled out form. Programming anything other than <enter> to > submit the form is not just counter intuitive, it is anathema. It > violates too many GUI conventions. No, please try Netscape 4.x. I just want that behavior back. And hitting anything but <Enter> to go between username and password, CLI or GUI is counterintuitive to me (as many folks who hear me cussing 30 or 40 times a day that I inadvertently do it will tell you). > > Now, what we *really* need is a "Do what I mean, not what I typed" key! > That would solve the entire problem. No. Please retry in Netscape 4.x from a login popup: username<Enter> password<Enter>. Now how do I change Mozilla to do this? (Or do I live with Nutscrape 4.x forever?) > > I suspect that the next major advance in computer interfaces is going to > be in voice recognition software that will consistently and correctly > recognize data input verbally, complete with verbal commands to activate > special functions. Of course, it may not accept a pressed <enter> key, > then. ;-}> No, I don't think so. Keyboards are quiet (mine is anyway). The only thing I want to hear while I'm working is Pink Floyd (Comfortably Numb, etc.) Ciao, David A. Bandel -- Focus on the dream, not the competition. -- Nemesis Racing Team motto _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
