From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Kevin Vigouroux <ke.vigouroux@laposte.net>
Cc: 41532@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41532: Why use the mouse in Emacs?
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2020 01:29:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmk3R0rKu5bqnP-SjHC=KAA187EFfVktraPHjP1TUcUz7w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sgfmoi9g.fsf@laposte.net> (Kevin Vigouroux's message of "Tue, 26 May 2020 16:58:19 +0200")
tags 41532 + moreinfo
thanks
Kevin Vigouroux <ke.vigouroux@laposte.net> writes:
> The user experience is quite different when browsing the Emacs and
> LibreOffice menus although they seem similar. The Emacs interface is
> mainly text-based partly because there are few graphical widgets.
>
> Nonetheless, this difference is not always clearly perceived. It can be
> seen in the following two cases:
>
> 1. Menu bar> Tools, Merge, Files... opens a window manager window.
> 2. Menu bar> Tools, Search Files(Grep)... opens the minibuffer.
>
> Moreover, I think people may also confuse a text-based interface having
> a good appearance with a graphical user interface.
>
> The issue may be:
>
> - Better describe or explain how to use the mouse in the interface,
>
> - Fix the menu so as not to mislead the user,
What do you suggest, more concretely? I've read the thread but I can't
find anything actionable.
> - Rebuild at least partially the Emacs graphical user interface.
This is a bit too vague to be actionable. I suggest coming up with
concrete suggestions for what to do, and sending them as separate
feature requests.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-18 1:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-25 17:37 bug#41532: Why use the mouse in Emacs? Kevin Vigouroux via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-05-25 18:22 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-26 14:58 ` Kevin Vigouroux via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-05-26 15:30 ` Drew Adams
2020-10-18 1:29 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2020-12-12 13:25 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-05-27 3:57 ` Dmitry Alexandrov
2020-05-27 4:57 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-26 15:52 ` Colin Baxter
2020-05-27 3:33 ` Dmitry Alexandrov
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to='CADwFkmk3R0rKu5bqnP-SjHC=KAA187EFfVktraPHjP1TUcUz7w@mail.gmail.com' \
--to=stefan@marxist.se \
--cc=41532@debbugs.gnu.org \
--cc=ke.vigouroux@laposte.net \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).