On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 14:34 , Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> sent:

>On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 10:46 +0200, Mario Lang wrote:
>> That is the point, I absolutely dont feel reading up on something
>> is necessarily a bad thing.  My hair stand up if I watch
>> a typical no-clue windows user more or less randomly hitting
>> buttons in the interface until "something" works.  I do feel this
>> "it has to work out of the box without me having to know anything
>> about it" attitude is childish.
>> 
>
>I disagree violently with this line of reasoning.  Software should
>ALWAYS work the way the user expects it to unless there is a DAMN GOOD
>REASON, for example if you are offering a much more powerful interface
>than the user is used to.
>
>For example, most apps (Firefox and IE) use "Ctrl-F" to 'Find in page'.
>Except Evolution, which forces you to use "Ctrl-S" to 'Find (Search) in
>page', because they have already bound Ctrl-F to 'Forward message'.


    Ah, but Ctrl-S has been search in all versions of Emacs for the last couple
of decades.  I think that predates IE and Firefox.  They must not have felt like
doing it in the normal way ;-)  And you don't need to point out that Emacs isn't
a browser since Evolution isn't one either.

>
>This is a MAJOR usability bug; "We didn't feel like doing it the normal
>way" is NEVER a "good reason" for usability purposes.
>
>Lee

Jan