Re: [Usability] newbie suggestions ...

[Alan Horkan <horkana tcd ie>]

[replying to 2 posts in one mail to confuse people]

> Speaking as someone who spends 60% of the day in Emacs, I'd say it's
> not scary at all. :)
of course
as someone who - likes to think he - knows somthing about usability  so 
much of usability seems to end up being "what you are used to" rather 
than "what is most usable".  
"one mans meat is another mans poison"

> Of course, now that I'm using Evolution as my mailer, I'm going to have
> to get used to not having them.
i use Netsape/Mozilla, pine and sometimes mutt (in roughly that order of 
frequencey).  Evolution scares me, i`m not descended from a monkey, im a 
Christian ... but seriously evolution is too much like MS Outlook for my 
liking and i dont understand all that contact managment timetabling 
malarkey (but thats seems to be the target audience).  

> I'd be more interested in keyboard shortcuts if the whole clipboard
> situation wasn't such a nightmare -- as long as I can't count on cut
> and paste to work except within a single application, I'm forced to
> fall back on middle-button and the primary X selection. (Which sucks
> rocks, considering how often I find that I've accidentally selected a
> new area when clicking to change applications, or accidentally selected
> an invisible newline, or accidentally just sort of lost the selection.
> Can anyone tell me what the relationship is, if any, between the GNOME
> clipboard and the X selection? And while you're at it, explain why
> GNOME terminal has "Paste" but not "Copy"?
that confuses me too, but im only just getting used to copying by 
selecting and pasting using the middle button.



[the text below is in response to a different post, its confusing, and 
im evil...]

> aagh! emacs keybindings by default how scary is that.  useful maybe but
> > please not on by default.
>
>
> I agree, but the problem is that it has it has been on by default in the
> past. I suspect there will be lovely flames and heated discussions from
> some users if it is off by default in the future. There already has been
> some heated discussions on some gnome mailing lists when Emacs shortcuts
> were discussed. But yeah, not enabling them by default sounds like the
> saner strategy to me(1).
I try and think of the people who have never used a computer before, and 
then the windows/mac people.  The most good for the most people.