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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: feedback on customize -- apropos-groups et al
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 09:47:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DNEMKBNJBGPAOPIJOOICGEJNCAAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1CGfR6-00030e-Ea@fencepost.gnu.org>

   M-x customize RET shows you information about customize groups.
   The top of the Custom buffer has a Help link to the manual's description.

You're right. Sorry, operator ignorance. Don't know how I missed the Help
button. (Button overdose, perhaps.)

       3. possible to have a version of the Info section on customize
          that reflects the UI on a window system?

   I don't understand.

Info is text-only; the customize interface I see (with a window system) has
buttons and looks a bit different. That's all.

       4. As to customize itself, it would be clearer if buttons that acted
only as
       links looked like links. Buttons should be reserved for real
_actions_. Too
       many buttons(!) -- most of which are not. Also, instead of having
this:

   How should a link look?

Like a link in Info, for instance, or in common Web browsers. Info links
don't interfere much with reading the text. By default they are just blue
text (purple for visited links). I think this was maybe my main message:
just change buttons that are not action buttons to look like Info links. And
using a different link color for visited links ("buttons"), as in Info, also
helps navigation.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-10 16:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-09 19:31 feedback on customize -- apropos-groups et al Drew Adams
2004-10-10 15:16 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-10 16:47   ` Drew Adams [this message]
2004-10-10 19:14     ` Lennart Borgman
2004-10-11 16:45       ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-11 17:03         ` Drew Adams
2004-10-11 17:13           ` Lennart Borgman
2004-10-12 14:48         ` Juri Linkov
2004-10-11 16:46     ` Richard Stallman

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