POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Emacs : Re: Emacs Server Time
30 Sep 2024 14:16:56 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Emacs  
From: scott
Date: 20 Apr 2009 04:07:33
Message: <49ec2d45$1@news.povray.org>
> Clever people realize not having 3 or 4 common keyboard shortcuts is a 
> lame excuse for not learning the other 80 or so specific features and 
> shortcuts a software might provide.

It's not just the shortcuts, it's things like using the space bar to open 
the context menu, the context menu not following the same UI rules as 
standard, not using standard dialog boxes (did you ever try to save a file 
to a network share in Blender? I tried to type in the path and it asked me 
if I wanted to make a new folder called "\\san1\$scott"!).

Fixing these things would take little resources and would generate far fewer 
complaints from new users.

I don't care about learning specific shortcuts for obscure operations, or 
learning how to use new features, but having to re-learn shortcuts for 
save,load,copy,paste,undo,redo, learning a new menu system, and a new file 
open/save dialog box is an unacceptable waste of my time and memory.


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