In article <39a2ff44@news.povray.org> , "Nathan Kopp" <Nat### [at] Koppcom> 
wrote:

> This is very interesting.  Many GUI OS and application designers have chosen
> to provide both.  The keyboard shortcuts, which have a higher learning
> curve, are presented in such a way that experts love them, but newbies
> ignore them.  Mouse-operated features are used by newbies and experts alike.

This was not the reason for my question * :-)


     Thorsten


* Either you dig for the various research papers regarding this topic, or
you try to locate a copy of

Tog on Interface
by Bruce Tognazzini
Addison-Wesley 1992
ISBN 0-201-60842-1

in your local libraries.  It explains in a funny way what Apple did with $50
million of research money to create the Lisa and Mac user interface.  Some
of the results are really surprising and unexpected...


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