-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 like i said before, hitting a key to call the chatting functionality is quite common in games
On 17/3/2010 06:55, Kitty wrote: > > Having the chatbar always taking focus would be just as much a > disaster for me as it seems it is for you to have it releasing focus > so much... Although, for me it seems to be perfect the way it is, > as I haven't been fighting it in 2.0: it seems to work the way my > mind expects it to. > > If there seems to be an issue, then it sounds like a debug setting > is in order. If enough people seem interested, that can be later > exposed in the UI somewhere. > > Going by the last "by country" statistics that were released 9% of the > SL population lives in a country where "WASD" is meaningless (AZERTY > keyboard layout). > > So regardless of how the other 90% is laid out that particular change in > 2.0 is going to annoy at least the 1 in 10 for who WASD never worked in > the first place which seems more than enough to make it a clearly > visible option and not something that's hidden away in an obscure debug > setting noone will ever know about. > > As an aside, hitting <return> to get focus to the chat bar just isn't > intuitive because it's tied to the "send what I've typed" action. If I'm > halfway through typing something and something else in the UI needs > attention it feels like a terribly unnatural thing to hit <return> to go > back to typing because you'd expect <return> to instead send what you > were busy typing before. Or if you finished typing it now takes 2 > <return>'s all of a sudden to actually send it. > > The UI also doesn't give any hints for those who don't know: instead of > "Click here to chat" it should say "Press return to start chatting". > People do realize that you click in a text box before typing in it while > having to hit <return> to give it focus is non-standard. > > Kitty > > > > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkuhcQYACgkQ8ZFfSrFHsmXr7wCeNb7EQxLloj5YGVFGmBvf41oA 5dUAn30NvH55CFVnHnavQ/DuawK2P2ka =aUAJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
