Re:Bill Gates on Windows Usability (2003)
by userbinator on Saturday October 26, 2019 @02:57PM
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CMD O for open, S for save P for print seem fairly intuitive to me.
The majority of Windows applications I've used also follow that (using Ctrl instead), because the unmodified keys will do something else (like inserting the pressed letter, in a word processor/text editor); the difference with Finder/Explorer is that browsing through the filesystem is the primary purpose, and arrows/Enter/Backspace to move selection/select/go back are far more convenient and easy to use than arrows/Cmd+O/Cmd+[.
I wonder if there is almost some sort of vi/emacs divide here.
The majority of Windows applications I've used also follow that (using Ctrl instead), because the unmodified keys will do something else (like inserting the pressed letter, in a word processor/text editor); the difference with Finder/Explorer is that browsing through the filesystem is the primary purpose, and arrows/Enter/Backspace to move selection/select/go back are far more convenient and easy to use than arrows/Cmd+O/Cmd+[.
I wonder if there is almost some sort of vi/emacs divide here.