I can put my "I agree" on almost all of these. I think sometimes as programmers we don't always consider the best place to put items on menus and panes. <smile>
Regards, J. R. -------------------- J. R. Westmoreland E-mail: jr at jrw.org -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:skypeenglish-bounces at emissives.com] On Behalf Of jim grimsby Jr. Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2008 8:03 PM To: 'a list for discussing skype and its use with screen access software.' Subject: Re: [Skypeenglish] scripts for beta 4 I would first like to start out by commending doug for excellent work on the new scripts. You are simply amazing getting a beta version of the scripts out only three days after the initial release of Beta one is quite impressive. That being said I would like to say a few things about the Skype beta itself. I will try to keep most of my comments on accessibility concerns since that is the purpose of this list. Skype has switched from a multiple window system and multiple tab system to a multiple pain system. This being said, the standard keyboard command for switching between panes is F6 to move forward by pain and shipped F6 to move backward by pain. They should implement jumping to pains with control and the number keys. With all of the available panes appearing in the view menu. The context menu shortcuts should be changed to mean something useful. For example, when in the context pane and you right click on a contact all of the items for sends spell out the word send. Sorry this is not intuitive. If I want to send an instant message, the intuitive shortcut would be i. if I want to send a person a file the intuitive shortcut would be f, and so on. We have the same problem in the menu bar with three items starting with the letter C. all of them having the shortcut of c. Let the shortcut for Paul be the letter a. Let the shortcut for conversation be the letter C. and let the shortcut for contacts be the letter o. Put the change your mood text back in the profile menu. After all, you have add video to my mood. So why not a change your mood text menu item? Remove duplicates For example in the options dialog there are two places to configure sound and video. They do the same thing one place for this configuration is enough. Another thing is there is an option to set privacy in the skype menu this can already be done within the options dialog so having this menu option is pointless. I am sure you get the idea. In the skype menu you have the option called presence. Short cut again is p. And then you have the option called profile, and guess what the short cut is p. change presence back to change status. Short cut of s put sign out in that sub menu where it belongs. Put change pass word in the profile section where it belong. Remove the buy credit menu option it is a link in the account section and there for not needed in the skype menu. Put share skype with a friend in the contacts section. After all you are sharing it with him in Oder to contact him right? Rename the tools menu to options. Rename the options dialog to preferences. More exselorator keys. Like create new contact control+n. Preferences control+p. etc. Or as I said in the past the ability to set global hot keys and local ones. With defaults set and turned on. Doug take these ideas and forward what you think will be helpful and discard the rest as usual. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:skypeenglish-bounces at emissives.com] On Behalf Of Richard Claypool Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2008 8:10 PM To: a list for discussing skype and its use with screen accesssoftware. Subject: Re: [Skypeenglish] scripts for beta 4 I just had a play with them mate, and while the quality is better, the fact that I can't tell it to save in a different folder, and the fact that it's still early beta has caused me to move back to good old 3.8x. Someone said they had two coppies of skype running, how me wonders? Ricko ?? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michele Barbi" <[email protected]> To: "a list for discussing skype and its use with screen accesssoftware." <skypeenglish at emissives.com> Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2008 4:10 PM Subject: Re: [Skypeenglish] scripts for beta 4 > Hi Rick, > keep in mind that looking in the scripts homepage (www.dlee.org/skype), > you > won't find them. You have to point the complete URL: > www.dlee.org/skype/skype4.php. > Bye! > Barbuz > > > > --- > avast! Antivirus: In partenza messaggio pulito. > Virus Database (VPS): 080621-0, 21/06/2008 > Controllato il: 22/06/2008 1.10.48 > avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2008 ALWIL Software. > http://www.avast.com > > > > > Thanks for posting to the skype english list. To access scripts for the > latest version of skype go to > http://www.dlee.org/skype > To access tutorials and other goodies go to > http://www.marrie.org/skype/skype.html > thanks and have a wonderful day. > > > _______________________________________________ > Skypeenglish mailing list > Skypeenglish at emissives.com > http://emissives.com/mailman/listinfo/skypeenglish_emissives.com Thanks for posting to the skype english list. To access scripts for the latest version of skype go to http://www.dlee.org/skype To access tutorials and other goodies go to http://www.marrie.org/skype/skype.html thanks and have a wonderful day. _______________________________________________ Skypeenglish mailing list Skypeenglish at emissives.com http://emissives.com/mailman/listinfo/skypeenglish_emissives.com Thanks for posting to the skype english list. 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