From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Menubar on text only terminals
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 05:13:43 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070402021343.GA2989@kobe.laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17934.54358.129732.694345@farnswood.snap.net.nz>
On 2007-04-01 09:36, Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz> wrote:
>> This probably isn't for the release, but I think toolbar
>> functionality maps better onto text only terminals than
>> the menubar because there are no pull down menus to worry
>> about.
>>
>> I am really lost there.
>
> With tmm, sub-menus have to be navigated through completions
> lists, which some find inconvenient. Toolbars don't have that
> extra complexity. I'm just trying to say that toolbars and
> text terminals (with use of the mouse) are a more natural fit.
That's kind of debatable. Programs like the text-mode elinks web
browser work quite nicely with a text mode menubar. The menu bar
of Emacs works in a different way than the elinks menu bar, but I
don't see why this makes it less useful than the toolbar.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-02 2:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-31 7:12 Menubar on text only terminals Nick Roberts
2007-03-31 20:42 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-31 21:36 ` Nick Roberts
2007-04-02 2:13 ` Giorgos Keramidas [this message]
2007-04-02 4:56 ` Nick Roberts
2007-04-02 6:55 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2007-04-02 7:25 ` David Kastrup
2007-04-02 7:37 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2007-04-02 7:47 ` David Kastrup
2007-04-02 12:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-04-02 23:28 ` Nick Roberts
2007-04-03 6:50 ` David Kastrup
2007-04-03 8:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
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